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THE RECORD OF 

THE CLASS OF 1884 

PRINCETON 




TWENTIETH 
ANNIVERSARY 



NEW YORK 
PRINTED FOR THE CLASS 

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" When the cares of life overtake us. 

Mingling fast our locks with gray. 
Should our dearest hopes betray us. 

False Fortune fall away. 
Still we banish care and sadness. 

As we turn our memories back. 
And recall those days of gladness 

'Neath the Orange and the Black.' 



INTRODUCTION 

LOOKING back over days that are past, it is pleasant 
to note the harmony which has always characterized 
our class. Ever since that night in Freshman year, 
when the class responded as one man to that cry of "Atzy 
Four," from Mishoff clinging to the Cannon, has our class 
been bound man to man. No cliques, no factions, no dis- 
cord. One devoted, harmonious family. It is but natural 
that this spirit should find expression in such a round-robin 
family letter as this record, containing a message from each 
member to each of the others, and in which each classmate 
may lind at least some mention of every other. 

What a splendid thing it would be if this record might 
tell the whole story of each comrade, of his trials and strug- 
gles, of hopes baffled and ot ambitions achieved. Priceless as 
such a record would be, it is unattainable. Men will not let 
us get so close to their inner lives. We may only get a tew 
facts and then draw inference as to the rest. Men of qual- 
ity for achievement in deed are men modest in speech ; and 
those of us who have not been called to do great deeds are 
likewise silent. We cannot get men to write of themselves. 
All we can hope to do is to establish certain personal facts 
from the statements of the men themselves, and then to glean 
other information here and there. Endeavor has been made 



INTRODUCTION 

to give all the information obtainable about every man who 
at any time was ever in any way connected with our class. 
When we think of over a year of incessant writing, and of 
the fifteen hundred and more letters written, we wonder that 
more information has not been found, and when we think of 
the reticence of some men and their family and friends, and 
of the round-about way many facts have been gathered, we 
wonder that so much has been obtained. 

Somewhere in this book we know that you will find 
something of interest. Here you will find the story of some 
lives whose last chapter has been written. Maybe this will 
be the last note to be made of them, as they are passing into 
oblivion. As we read these stories we will feel proud that 
these men were our classmates. The devoted friendship of 
Stevens and Urner, the consecrated lives of Welling and 
Woodhull, the magnificent achievements of many of our 
comrades, will be a source of inspiration. We will all feel 
bound into a dearer and closer friendship by a more inti- 
mate knowledge of each classmate. 

No friendships are quite so true and close as those of our 
youth, and these have been mellowed and strengthened with 
the passing of twenty years. 

" Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe 
Can make defense — save Friendship." 

May this book serve in some degree to knit us closer to 
each other and to dear "Old Nassau." Let this book be 
dedicated then to the Friendships of College Days — those 
golden " days of gladness 'neath the Orange and the Black." 



VI 



CONTENTS 




Introduction ...... 


V 


Personal Records ..... 


3 


In Memoriam ..... 


. 266 


Since Graduation ..... 


267 


Report of Memorial Committee 


270 


Facts and Fio-ures .... 


272 


Directory ...... 


• ' 274 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

(not including portraits) 

The Four Years Men 
Freshman Year 
'84 Athletic Team . 
The Last Princeton Crew 
Dudleigh Hill — Class Boy 
Class Cup 
Senior Group 
Triennial Reunion 
Decennial Group 
Fifteenth Year 



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COMMITTEE 

William D. Moffat Alexander S. Rowland 

Ambrose G. Todd 



PERSONAL RECORDS 

OF '84 



PERSONAL RECORDS 

OF THE MEMBERS OF THE 

CLASS OF 1884 



WILLIAM ALTON, JR., A.B., LL.B., 

LAWYER, 1 133 STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL. 

WITH a break of some six weeks spent on his wheat 
farm in Dakota, Alton's first year after leaving 
Princeton was devoted to the study of the law. 

He passed his examinations to the Bar in 1887, with fine 
prospects for the future. 

As he had adopted for his life's motto, *' Love in a palace, 
but no love in a cottage," we suppose him to have attained 
the palace about five years after graduation, for he was mar- 
ried on October 15, 1889, to Miss Caroline Emma Wilson, 
and considers this the *' personal achievement ot the past 
twenty years which has given him the most satisfaction." 
Ernst was present at the wedding. 

Alton has three children — M. H. Alton, 12; Wm. Carol 
Alton, 10, and Lena Wilson Alton, 6 ; and his favorite leisure 
occupation is entertaining them. 

He has filled several public positions, and has worked in 
politics, serving as Judge of Elections and in other capacities. 

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He is a member of the following clubs: University; Law 
Club; Bar Association; Homewood Country Club. 

He has also been for some time and has been recently 
re-elected first vice-president of the Princeton Club of 

Chicago. 

In 1902 Alton helped to welcome Professor Woodrow 
Wilson to the annual dinner of the Alumni of Chicago. 

He says that he has not changed at all since he left 
Princeton; that ''he has not seen any" of his published 
writings ; that his ideal of perfect contentment is a " clean 
conscience," his fondest ambition *' success." 

He has achieved his ambition, for Alton has been success- 
ful. Several enterprises promoted by him have proved very 
profitable. In his profession he has made himself a good 
name. His home and his family are delightful. Can a man 
ask anything more ? 

WILLIAM E. AYRES, A.B., 

TEACHER, SWEDESBORO, N. J. 

" After leaving college I took up my residence at Toms 
River, Ocean County, New Jersey, and went into the brick 
business with my brother. In connection with four brick 
works we afterwards opened a general store. 

" In 1889 I married Miss Delia Jennings of Toms River. 
We have one daughter, Florence, who is now twelve years 
old. 

" Later I began teaching school, and from 1900 to 1903 
I was principal of the schools of West Cape May. 

" I am now located in Swedesboro, New Jersey, and am 

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supervising principal of the schools of Woolwich Town- 
ship, Gloucester County, New Jersey." 

HARRY L. BALDWIN, C.E., 

TOPOGRAPHER U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, WASHINGTON, D. C. 

We have had quite a hunt for Baldwin. We advertised 
him as lost, but he turns up with this excellent letter and 
account of himself: 

*' It is rather startling to find myself among the missing, 
and I don't just understand the reason therefor. 

*' It produced much the same effect noted by Oliver 
Wendell Holmes in ' The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,' as 
being produced when one first hears himself called *old man.' 
Having once experienced that delightful sensation, I can testify 
to the aptness of the author's description. Am not sure the 
designation was correct in my case, and not sure it was not. 

" Had not unfortunate real estate investment been made, 
I might now be in a position to realize my ideals. Have 
not lost hope yet, and also hope that before our 40th anni- 
versary is celebrated two of my descendants may be num- 
bered among Princeton's Alumni. I trust none of the other 
missing ones may have been less fortunate than I, but have 
had my curiosity aroused as to why any one should go to 
Sing Sing to live. 

*' I became Assistant Topographer on the U. S. Geologi- 
cal Survey on July 24th, 1884, at a salary of $720. I spent 
five months in field work in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. 

** We explored several of the side canons of the Colorado 
River, and had lots of hair-breadth escapes. 

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" Now, in 1 903, 1 am Topographer, at a salary of $2,400. 
" I have written several astronomical articles, whose dates 

I have forgotten. 

-I was married December i ith, 1895, to Miss Elizabeth 
J. Watson, and we have four children — Elizabeth, 6^; 
Harry, 5>^; James, 33^; Mary, 1% . 

" My ideal of contentment would be to have sufficient 
income to be at home twelve months of the year instead of 
six. Home to consist of an eight or nine-room house, ten 
acres of ground for garden, chickens, etc., located within easy 
distance of Washington or Denver, so that my children may 
have school advantages equal to those I have had ; a house 
servant who is thoroughly reliable (why long for the unat- 
tainable !) ; and finally a ' green old age,' with children hap- 
pily married and settled nearby. 

'« To employ my leisure hours in mechanical investigation, 
and to have the social pleasure of music, would make up my 
sum of content. 

" The achievement of the past twenty years which has 
given the most satisfaction is that I hold the record in geo- 
logical survey for accuracy and speed in primary triangula- 
tion. I am a Master Mason, Chapter of the Commandery 
and Mystic Shrine," 

JAMES MARK BALDWIN, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., 
Hon. D.Sc. (Oxford), Hon. LL.D. (Glasgow). 

PROFESSOR JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, MD. 

The career of Baldwin has been one of such stupendous 
achievement that your editors feel it is no confession of weak- 

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ness to say that they are not competent to take a fair meas- 
ure of Baldwin and his work. We have, therefore, invoked 
the aid of Professor Ormond, who has kindly given us the 
following article : 




JAMES MARK BALDWIN 



James Mark Baldwin was born in i86i,and is now forty- 
two years old, having accomplished, before reaching middle 
age, a work that would be considered a great achievement 
for a long lifetime. It was the good fortune of the writer 
to serve on the committees that in his senior year awarded 
Mr. Baldwin the Baird Prize, and on his graduation the 
Mental Science Fellowship, the latter marking the beginning 

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of his philosophical career. This early work contained a 
germ of promise on which the writer, who knew him some- 
what intimately, founded a prediction of future success which 
has been much more than fulfilled. 

Mr. Baldwin spent his Fellowship year and part of another 
at Leipzig, studying under Professor Wundt and doing work 
in his laboratory in Experimental Psychology. He then re- 
turned to Princeton as Instructor in French, and in the mean- 
time took a course in Theology in the Princeton Theological 
Seminary. He also completed his studies for the Ph.D. de- 
gree in Philosophy, winning the degree by examination and 
thesis in 1887. The subject of his thesis was Materialism, a 
theme assigned to him by President McCosh. 

From 1887 to 1889 he occupied the chair of Philosophy 
in the University of Lake Forest, 111. He was then called 
to the University of Toronto, at Toronto, Canada, as Profes- 
sor of Philosophy, a position which he held till 1893, when 
he was called to Princeton as Professor of Psychology. This 
position he has held until the present (1903), when, much to 
the regret of Princeton, he has been called to Johns Hopkins 
University as the head of the new graduate department of 
Philosophy recently instituted there. 

Professor Baldwin's works are almost legion, and space 
will only permit mention of the more important. He has 
been an incessant and influential contributor to reviews and 
periodicals. His first important book was a translation from 
the French of Ribot's German Psychology of To-day (1886). 
His next publication was his important two-volume Hand- 
book of Psychology (1888 ; 2nd edition, 1891). Then fol- 
lowed a smaller treatise. Elements of Psychology (1893). ^^^ 



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1895 appeared the first part of his Mental Development in 
the Child and the Race, which was followed in 1897 ^Y ^^^ 
second part on Social and Ethical Interpretations. These two 
volumes gave Professor Baldwin a world-wide reputation. 
They were translated into French, German and Italian, and 
secured to him the recognized leadership in the field of Gen- 
etic Psychology, The second volume, in manuscript, was 
awarded a special gold medal by the Royal Academy of Arts 
and Sciences of Denmark. His next publication was his in- 
teresting little volume entitled Story of the Mind ( 1 898), 
written for beginners in Psychology. Since 1898 Professor 
Baldwin has published two books comprised largely of his 
more important addresses and contributions to periodicals, 
the first entitled Fragments in Philosophy and Science (i 902), 
the second, Development and Evolution (1902). At present 
Professor Baldwin is engaged on a work in Genetic Logic. 
In addition to the writings mentioned Professor Baldwin has 
served as associate editor of Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia, 
writing most of the articles on Psychological subjects. He is 
editor-in-chief of the important three-volume Dictionary ot 
Philosophy and Psychology (i 900-1 902). In connection 
with Professor Cattell, he founded and edits the Psychological 
Review. He is also editor of the Princeton Contributions to 
Psychology, which include the most important Psychological 
publications of Princeton men. Professor Baldwin is also 
one of the editors of a series in the History of Psychology, 
and he has also served as chairman of a committee to drait a 
plan of work in Psychology for the Carnegie University at 
Washington. 

That Professor Baldwin's work has been recognized is 



THE CLASS OF 1884, P 1^ I N C E T O N 

shown not only by the succession of important positions he 
has held, but also by the degrees and honors he has received. 
At Princeton he received the degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. in 
1887. In 1900 the lirst degree of D.Sc. ever given at Ox- 
ford was conferred on Professor Baldwin. In 1897 ^^ ^^^ 
the first American to receive the special gold medal of the 
Denmark Academy of Sciences. In 1900 the University of 
Glasgow conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. 
He was president of the American Psychological i\ssociation 
in 1898 ; vice-president of the International Congress of Psy- 
chologists, London, 1892; member of the Council of the 
same organization, Munich, 1896; honorarv president of 
International Congress of Criminal Anthropology, Geneva, 
1896. He is at present honorary member of the Aristotelian 
Society, London ; member of Society of American Natural- 
ists ; member Comite d'honeur scientific congresses, Paris, 
1900; member of Trask Institute of Sociology, 1898, and 
of other societies too numerous to mention. 

Such a record is phenomenal for a man who is yet only 
forty-two. What the next twenty years will bring to pass 
in such a strenuous life it would hardly be safe to predict. 
We feel sure, however, that Professor Baldwin still holds a 
trump or two, and that the brilliant game is not near to its 
conclusion. Obtaining his initiation into experimental psy- 
chology in the laboratory of Wundt, then the most famous 
in Germany, Professor Baldwin has always emphasized the 
importance of laboratory methods, being the founder of the 
first British laboratory at Toronto, and also founding and 
equipping the psychological laboratorv at Princeton. Apply- 
ing experimental methods to the phenomena of individual 



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consciousness, Professor Baldwin was soon attracted by the 
Genetic aspect of the problems that arose. The idea of Gen- 
esis proved the open sesame that enabled him to connect the 
growth of consciousness, by means of its biological correla- 
tions, with the categories of evolution and heredity ; while, 
on the other side, it enabled him to extend the processes of 
development on into the field of the social. The epistem- 
ologist and metaphysician, as well as the educator and social 
philosopher, may find in the Genetic conception which Bald- 
win has taken a leading part in working out admirable data 
for their own work. 

As a teacher Baldwin has few equals. His enthusiasm 
tor his subject is contagious, and his mastery of it commands 
the confidence of his pupils. Though somewhat averse to 
lecturing before a very large body of students, his success as 
a lecturer is pronounced. He is in his element, though, 
when, surrounded by a limited number of advanced students, 
he takes the lead in an informal way in their discussions. He 
excels as a o-uide in investio-ation and as a leader and director 
in research. His own strength lies rather in the field ot orig- 
inal research and discovery than in that ot scholarly erudi- 
tion. This gives him a strong bias toward science and tempts 
him at times to put too little stress on form. Not that his 
productions are lacking in literary merit. His volumes on 
Mental Development especially make very interesting read- 
ing, and the fault touched on here only shows itself in a cer- 
tain impatience with the restraints of literary form. But this 
defect is greatly outweighed by the brilliant merits ot Pro- 
fessor Baldwin's work, which are so many as to make criti- 
cism on a single point seem ungracious. Let us hasten to 

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say, then, that it is the richness of the feast that has made us 
critical, and that the standard we expect Professor Baldwin 
to surpass in the future is the one that he himself has set. 

As in everything else. Professor Baldwin has been happy 
in his family life. Mrs. Baldwin, who is a daughter of the 
late Dr. William Henry Green, not only keeps up the domestic 
end ot the establishment, but finds time to accompany her 
husband's literary and professional work with intelligent in- 
terest. There are two charming children, Helen and Eliza- 
beth, about thirteen and eleven years of age respectively. They 
are referred to as "H." and "E." in their father's books on 
child psychology. Under the home influence Baldwin has 
become quite domestic, and it is evident that in his affections 
the family jewels hold the highest place. 

To the facts stated by Professor Ormond we may add that 
the award of the Gold Medal of the Royal Academy of Sci- 
ences of Denmark, 1896, was the first time this medal has 
ever been awarded to an American. The French Institute 
ot Sociology, of which Baldwin is an honorary member, has 
only three American members. 

The occasion when Baldwin was presented for his degree 
of Hon. D.Sc, at Oxford, was a memorable one for America 
and lor Princeton. It was the first degree in Science ever 
awarded by Oxford. True to his Alma Mater, Baldwin pre- 
sented himself in his Princeton gown and hood. This was 
the first time any university colors except those of Oxford 
have ever been allowed in the historic Sheldonian Theatre. 
The presentation speech was an extended Latin oration pre- 
pared lor the occasion and delivered by Professor Elliott of 
Oxford. 



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[We know that every member of 1884 would read this 
with facihty and interest, but lack of space forbids its publi- 
cation.] 

The result of it all was, among other things, the red and 
gray gown which you will see on Baldwin in the academic 
procession. We present his picture, robed in this gown. But 
with all the greatness which Baldwin has achieved, and with 
all the honors which have been thrust upon him, he has main- 
tained a sincerity and simplicity of manner which has en- 
deared him more than ever to his fellows. No classmate 
ever went to Princeton who did not receive a hearty welcome 
to his home. We all remember that delightful reception at 
his house which he tendered to his classmates and their wives 
and friends on the occasion of our last reunion, and the lunch- 
eon he tendered the class at the time of the sesqui-centennial 
of the college. 

If you would see this rounded and mellowed man for 
yourselves, he has drawn his own picture in replies to our 
questions: 

In what ways do you think you have changed since 
graduation? *' From an over-serious 'Jim Dumps,' burdened 
with the weight of his own soul, to a ' Sunny Jim,' in love 
with everybody else." 

What accomplishments have you? "Photography and 
golf, mainly; in a secondary way, a little Psychology." 

Have you anv fixed habits, good or bad ; and if so, what 
are they? "A bundle of them, pretty well balanced in qual- 
ity, from staying home from church to going to Europe every 
two years or oftener. Newest habit is that of wearing eye- 
glasses for reading. Most valuable acquired habit is that of 

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judging persons liberally and allowing that their points ot 
view on conduct, opinion, political, religious, etc., may have 
a modicum of sense." 

What is your idea of perfect contentment ? " My lot as 
sketched above, with certain questionable additions, which, 
on the whole, would probably make me discontented. I 
should like to see the fellows oftener and have them become 
better acquainted with 'Sunny Jim,' sometimes also called 
* Easy Mark.' " 

CHARLES J. BANDMANN, 

MINING ENGINEER, fOS CALIFORNIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 

" When the waters were dried 
And the earth did appear, 
The Lord he created the engineer." — Kipling. 

Charles J. Bandmann was not heard from in the first three 
records after graduation, except through a vague and glitter- 
ing rumor in 1887 that he was " interested in a gold mine." 

We learn from other sources that Bandmann took a prac- 
tical course in metallurgy under the State Mineralogist ot 
California in 1885, and in 1886 took charge of the Pittsburg 
Mines at Grass Valley, California. 

He also studied the manufacture of explosives, and was 
engaged in that business for several years. 

He writes that the successive steps in his career were : 
" first, powder manufacturing business, afterward mining, in 
which he has continued ever since, being now a consulting 
engineer." 

He has been President of California Rattan Co.; Manag- 

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ing Director West Vancouver Commercial Co., and Consult- 
ing Engineer for several mining companies. 

Bandmann's business address is 508 California Street, San 
Francisco, California, under the firm name of Charles J. Band- 
mann Co., Engineer of Mines. 




CHAKI.t s 1. liANDMAW 



He was married January 11, 1888, in San Francisco, to 
Miss Ottelea F. Mann, and quite a number of i 884 men were 
present at the wedding. 

He has two children, Charles J. Bandmann, Jr., age 13, 
and Florence B, 5}^ . 

Bandmann has a cheerful philosophy. He says the 

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achievement of the past twenty years which has given him the 
most satisfaction, has been '^' making money," which sounds 
prosperous and comfortable. 

He adds: "I don't think I have changed at all. Am 
just as much of a 'kid' as ever; play the 'Jew's harp,' and 
speak French, German, and Spanish. My favorite occupation 
is to be at home, reading; my greatest social pleasure, the 
theatre, and my ideal of contentment to have no worries, no 
cares, a competency and good health." 

Bandmann belongs to the following clubs: Masonic So- 
ciety in which he has attained 328 ; Union League of San 
Francisco; Princeton Club of New York. 

He is a Republican in politics, and a believer in protec- 
tion and expansion, 

" Charlie " always had these beliefs as we saw in Fresh- 
man year when he tried to put out the fire in town, and was 
so zealous to ' protect ' the fair occupant of the house, and so 
generous in playing the hose on everyone and everything. 

EDWIN S. BELKNAP, A.B., 

TEAS, 5 FRANKLIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. 

After Princeton and one year at the Eastman Business Col- 
lege at Poughkeepsie, Belknap went into the spice and tea 
business in Bridgeport, Conn. 

His stores there were burned in 1889, and about that 
time he established a branch store, Torrington, Conn., and 
went to the latter place to live. Afterwards he returned to 
Poughkeepsie and became connected with the firm of B. 
Fischer & Co., tea merchants. 

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On April 14th, 1887, Belknap married Miss Julia D. 
Wright, daughter of Mr. Jeremiah Wright of Poughkeepsie. 

They have three children : 

William Cook, 16. Leslie Hurst, 12. Edwin S., Jr., 9. 

He belongs to the Princeton Club, Dutchess Club of 
Poughkeepsie, and University Club of Poughkeepsie. Bel- 
knap has not lost his athletic prowess of college days. He 
has figured successfully in local golf and tennis tournaments. 

JAMES B. BENSON, 

COUDERSPORT, PA. 

Benson left college in Freshman year. Nothing has 
been seen or heard of him since. All of the various ave- 
nues of inquiry we have followed have led to no informa- 
tion. The above address is taken from the college catalogue 
of our Freshman year. 

LAWRENCE W. BIGHAM, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, 518 FOURTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. 

[We promised Bigham, if he would only give us the facts, we would not publisii his 
letter, but edit one of our own. His letter is so good, however, that we publish it, asking 
his forgiveness.] 

My dear Todd : 

Your letter has touched my heart and I will give you just 
a little more data for your Class History, especially when you 
tell me that you will carefully edit the letters and be respon- 
sible at least for the English. 

It seems incredible to me that almost twenty years have 
elapsed since our graduation. The years have passed lightly 

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over me. I have not been sick a day in all that time. While 
not quite the youngest member of the class, I flatter myself 
that I will look quite as young as any when we meet at Com- 
mencement. 

My whole time during these twenty years has been given 
to the study and practice of the law. Probably my success in 
the profession has been as great as I deserved. I have not 
made a specialty of any particular branch of the law, excepting 
that I have practiced as little as possible in the criminal 
courts. I have not held any political office, but have taken 
some interest in politics. I have carried out Professor Gar- 
field's idea that it is the duty of the citizen to give at least a 
part of his leisure time to the pursuit of practical politics, as 
eloquently elaborated by him in his speech at the Princeton 
dinner on March 25th, 1904, in this city. I have taken part 
in one or two independent movements upon principle, but 
have mainly devoted my energies to the success of the Re- 
publican party, and have held and still hold positions of more 
or less importance in the City and County organizations of 
that party. This city and county have recently experienced 
the evils of a bogus reform administration, which tempora- 
rily defeated the Republican party. I did not espouse the 
cause of the so-called reformers, because I believed their ob- 
ject was loot rather than the benefit of the public, and their 
course when in power has Justified my belief. 

I attended Albany Law School and was graduated there- 
from in 1887. In the same year I received the degree of 
A.M. from Princeton. I intended trying for the degree of 
Ph.D. from Princeton and had some correspondence with 
Professor West on the matter. I refused to undergo the ex- 



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aminations required prior to registration, upon principle, be- 
lieving that the grantor is bound by the recitals in his deed, 
and the college had certified under its official seal to the rest 
of the world that I was passably versed in the subjects upon 
which examination was to be had ; so that line of study was 
never taken up by me. 

During the twenty years I have read extensively, but mis- 
cellaneously. I have kept up my slender acquaintance with 
the foreign languages which I gained while in college and 
acquired a reading knowledge of a few additional languages. 
The study of language is perhaps my especial fad. I have 
written no books. 

I was married on September 30th, 1891, at Albany, N. 
Y., to Blanche Louise Brainard of that city. Her father is 
Albert Brainard of Albany, and her mother Isabella Patter- 
son Brainard, now deceased. We have no children. There 
were no Princeton men at the wedding. 

I am not much of a club man. I am a member of the 
Princeton Club of Western Pennsylvania, of the Americus 
and Magee Republican clubs and of various Masonic bodies. 
. John G. Jennings, ex-' 84, is engaged in the oil-produc- 
ing business. He is a member of the firm of E. H. Jen- 
nings & Bros. I think he is married and has children. He 
is a hustling business man and I understand is pretty well otf. 
His firm is a very strong one. He is an enthusiastic Prince- 
ton man and frequently attends the Princeton Club dinners. 
He is away from thecitv a great deal of his time, and I have 
been unable to see him recently to obtain more information 
from him for you. Mr. Jennings is the only other member 
of '84 who now lives in this county. Carl I. Heydrick lives 

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at Franklin, a half-day's journey from here. Heydrick at- 
tended the Princeton dinner last week. He said he had 
written you and that he expected to attend the reunion. He 
is still entitled to the nickname " Sol." His face still retains 
the bloom of youth. 

I hope to be able to attend the reunion, but cannot 
promise to be there more than a day or two. It comes in a 
bad time of the year for me. 

HENRY McKIM BLACK, A.B., 

BANKER, 55 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. 

For six months after graduation Black pursued '* farming 
operations and pleasure-seeking," after which he was engaged 
in the manufacture of electric burglar alarms in Camden, 
New Jersey, and in 1886 he went into the brokerage busi- 
ness in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, dealing in specialties and pat- 
ented articles. 

About 1890 he moved to New York and carried on a 
piano manufacturing business under the firm name of Black & 
Keffer, 729 First Avenue, in addition to his brokerage special- 
ties. 

He was the first to introduce tar camphor as a moth de- 
stroyer, but, being unable to obtain a patent thereon, its use 
soon became general. 

He then started in the banking business under the name 
of H. M. Black & Co. 

He was married in St. Paul's, Hoboken, New Jersey, on 
November 4th, 1891, to Miss Nina Wolf, daughter of Henry 
and Cecilia Wolf. 

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They have had three children, of whom two are living : 
Henry McKim, Jr., born July, 1892, died June, 1893; 
Gladys Newbold, born October 23d, 1893; William Tod, 
born July 24th, 1898. 

Black has been in the banking business for nine years, 
and says: ** Will probably end my days in same pursuit." 

He writes that his son, William Tod Black, is a future 
Princeton boy, and adds, "Next June I trust to meet many 
of you and go into further details." 

Rev. ALVIN BLACKWELL, A.B., A.M., 

CLERGYMAN, COOLBAUGHS, PA. 

Blackwell spent the first two years after graduation at 
teaching as principal of a school in Pennington, New Jersey. 
Since this time he has devoted himself to the ministry. 
Graduating at Princeton Seminary in 1889, his work tor 
three years after being ordained was at Federalsburgh, Ma- 
ryland. Since that time he has been pastor of the Middle 
Smithville Presbyterian Church at Coolbaughs, Pennsylvania. 
In 1 90 1 he was married at Lewis, Delaware, to Alice B., a 
daughter of William E. and Anna E. Bingham. 

JOSIAH LOW BLACKWELL, A.B., 

CONTRACTOR, 229 E. GERMAN STREET, BALTIMORE, MD. 

Charm as we might we could not succeed in getting a 
line from Blackwell, and therefore the following statements 
are not guaranteed : 

Blackwell is a general contractor, but making a specialty 
of street railway work. His headquarters are at 229 E. Ger- 

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man Street, Baltimore, Maryland, and he has branch offices 
in Philadelphia and New York. 

At first Blackwell became connected with the Bentley- 
Knight Company in the electrical business at Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, in which company he and his brothers owned 
a controlling interest. Thereafter, when said company was 
absorbed by the Thompson-Huston Company, he started his 
present general contracting business at Baltimore, turning his 
attention to the constructing and asphalting of streets, in- 
stalling electric street railways, etc. We understand he has 
been very successful. Blackwell is married, and we are told 
he has a family. 

Blackwell's silence we know is due to his desire to avoid 
being ** written up." It is not due to any lack of interest in 
Princeton or the class, for he is a member of the Princeton 
Club of New York and of Baltimore, and we frequently hear 
of him at the dinners and meetings of these associations. 

JOHN D. BLAIR, A.B. 

ATTORNEY AT LAW, HOLLIDAYSBURGH, PA. 

" Where have you been this while away ? 
Johnnie ; Johnnie ? " 

There has been no direct response from Blair since leav- 
ing Princeton until February i, 1904. 

He was reported to be in Europe in 1885, and in 1889 
to have studied law and to be practising the same in Holli- 
daysburgh, Penn. He was said at that time to be "neither 
married nor engaged, but prospering in other ways." 

The following letter has been received from him : ** You 

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have so relentlessly bombarded me with postal cards and cir- 
culars, that out of self-defence I will give you this informa- 
tion. When a classmate does not respond there is a motive 
— it may be modesty, it may be regret. I regret that I am 
not able to schedule great achievements. I am practising law 
at Hollidaysburgh, Pa. I am not married. While this is 
much a negative letter as to myself, yet it is positive in this, 
that the successes of my classmates will be learned by me with 
great rejoicing. By this medium I send out to every class- 
mate my extreme interest in his welfare." 

We have learned that Blair's life as a graduate is much 
the same as it was at college — genteel, comfortable, progres- 
sive. Prosperity has followed him, and as a lawyer he has 
been successful in establishing a lucrative practice. 

JAMES W. K. BOAK, 

LAST KNOWN ADDRESS, LEROY, N. Y. 

Boak left college in Freshman year. He has never been 

heard of since. The following letter has been received from 

the postmaster at Leroy: 

" f>bruary 19, 1904. 

"J. W. K. Boak left Leroy about 1888, and gave no ad- 
dress. His present address is unknown. 

" George E. Marcellus, P.M." 

JOHN Y. BOYD, A.B., 

WHOLESALE COAL, BOYD, STICKNEY AND CO., 222 MARKET STREET, 
HARRISBURG, PA. 

Boyd has been in the business of wholesale coal ever since 
graduation. 

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The steps in his career have been regularly progressive. 

He entered the office of Boyd, Stickney & Co. in 1884, 
and is now junior partner. 

The 1889 Record says that he had then " one of the 
prettiest homes in Harrisburg," 

He was married on April 26, 1887, to Miss Eleanor Gil- 
more Herr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Herr. Several 
classmates were present at the wedding ceremony and assisted. 

Boyd has four children : James, Jr., age 16 ; Eleanor Gil- 
more, 10, A. Jackson Herr, 12, Louisa Yeomans, 8. 

His avoirdupois has increased considerably, but he is still 
active. He is an enthusiastic golfer, and belongs to many 
clubs. 

Rev. EDWARD L. BRADLEY, 

MANAGER, ALLENDALE FARM, LAKE VILLA, ILL. 

Here is a man who has probably done as much good for 
humanity as any member of our class. He is now conduct- 
ing the Allendale Farm, a sort of Boys' Junior Republic, at 
the above address. Ned did not go at once into this work, 
but first started into the publishing business as a member of 
the firm of William M. Bradley & Bros, at Philadelphia and 
New York. They were the publishers, among other books, 
of Bradley's Atlas. Later he became the Eastern agent of 
Rand & McNally, and then, deciding to go into the min- 
istry, he entered the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Mid- 
dletown. Later he was called to Chicago to the Western 
Theological Seminary, where he spent three years. While 
engaged in work in Chicago he became oppressed with the 

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poverty and unfavorable conditions which attended the life 
struggles of the street boys of Chicago. By his efforts cer- 
tain people of influence were interested in the enterprise, and 
especially those who had the administration of the juvenile 
courts of Chicago. So a farm was started with a few boys, 
and Bradley was placed in charge, and this has since devel- 
oped into a well-organized and splendidly-managed institu- 
tion where boys are given a chance to get away from their 
bad habits and develop those of thrift and usefulness. This 
is conducted on the lines of the Boy Republics. We are 
told that in fact Bradley is sole dictator in his little kingdom, 
but nobody knows it because Ned has the faculty of getting 
the boys to want to do what he wants them to do. A friend 
who has been to Allendale says the boys and each one of 
them love Bradley ; that he is really a great and good father 
to each one, and they are glad ot it. 

Some one has said *' happy is the man who has found 
his work." It is evident Bradley has found his, and he loves 
it and loves his boys each and every one. When we asked 
him if he was married he says '' No, no," but when we ask 
him the names of children he gives us a list of about seventy- 
five, which he siys are his by adoption although he is not re- 
sponsible for them. His answers to some of our questions 
show how deeply he is in love with his work. His fondest 
ambition is ** to place the work of Allendale upon a selt- 
supporting basis and withdraw it from the list of charitable 
institutions of the State," and he regards it as his best achieve- 
ment that he has accomplished something with the odds 
against him in the work in which he is now engaged. 

"What is your favorite leisure occupation ?" 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

" I have no leisure." 

" What social pleasures do you most enjoy?" 
" They donothave such things in these parts — too busy." 
*' What is your ideal of perfect contentment ? " 
" To be the foster father of lOO ; to see them grow and 
a few of them finish off at Princeton, as one of them will 
have done in June, 1907." 

In these few answers you get a fine picture of Bradley, up 
to his ears in work and happy in it. 

The Allendale Farm is at Lake Villa, Illinois, on the Wis- 
consin Central Railroad, fifty miles from Chicago, on the 
west shore of Cedar Lake. It is the home of forty or fifty 
boys from eight to twelve years of age, who are orphans or 
else wards of the Juvenile Court. There are five workers 
at Allendale who give their services. The cook, his assist- 
ant and the farmer are the only ones receiving pay. 

Why don't some of you fellows send for a copy of the 
" Allendale Blue Print "? You'll find it mighty interesting. 

WILLIAM D. BRERETON, 

YONKERS, N. Y. 

Brereton was only with us a short time — so short, in fact, 
we scarcely had time to get acquainted with him. We have 
tracked him to Yonkers, N. Y., but there the trail became 
" blind," and we could go no further. 

GEORGE BORROUGHS, 

PHARMACIST, MANASQUAN, N. J. 

Borroughs never completed his college course, but since 
then he has studied chemistry; and now is a graduate phar- 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

macist. About 1897 ^^ opened a drug store at Manasquan, 
New Jersey, where he has been very successful. A branch 
store was later opened at Point Pleasant, New Jersey. 
He is married and has one child, a son. 



JAMES E. BURT, M.D., D.O., 

PHYSICIAN, DRS. BRYAN AND BURT, ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY. 

'* The sixth and last call — a hurry call, I take it — reached 
me this morning. If Ambrose has been half as persistent in 
collecting bills as he has in drumming us derelicts up to duty, 
he surely is in a class with the J. P. M's, the W. H. V's, or 
the Hetty G's. 

" Note the foxy wording on the postal : * Can't get out 
class history without you ' (or something to that effect ! ) 
thereby inoculating our frame with the feeling that the * To 
be or not to be' of '84's autobiography is up to us. Some 
hesitate to write, doubtless, because of the personal element 
that must enter, necessarily, into a paper of this character ; 
but I shall take it for granted that this ' Twenty Years After ' 
is the one occasion in our lives when we are permitted to 
talk about ourselves without fear of offending the good senre 
of friends and neighbors. 

" Apropos of that classic phrase tempiis fugit, when we 
viewed the future through the large end of youth's telescope 
and saw, in imagination, the wads of wealth and chunks of 
fame awaiting us up the line, twenty years seemed a rather 
long time. But now as we stand on the eminence with 
hands in our pockets, * looking backward ' in more senses 
than one, we feel * how short ! ' 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

" I shall never forget that September afternoon in 1883, 
when I took train for South Jersey, where I was to become 
teacher of the ' district school ' in a small hamlet called Wey- 
mouth. As the college buildings dropped out of view one 
by one, it seemed that e-vei-ything was behind me. But what 
could a fellow do who was financially ' up against it,' and 
practically had been so from beginning of prep school life ! 

"As some of you know, I intended to return to college 
the next year and complete my course, but when the time 
came I weakened. My classmates would not be there. It 
was apparently the desire of the community that I teach an- 
other year, and they backed it up by materially increasing my 
salary ; furthermore, I had met my fate. The result was I 
taught two years longer, the last year as a married man. 

** During the teaching period, in addition to getting mar- 
ried, I had paid off all obligations incurred during school life 
at Pennington and Princeton, and had about $1,000 to the 
good. So I concluded to enter into a newspaper and print- 
ing business at Asbury Park. The first move in that direc- 
tion was to build a little ' home by the sea,' and, by way of 
description, it had upon it a pretty cupola and a beautiful 
mortgage. We enlarged our newspaper and printing plant. 
I began to hustle in the commercial world and ride on rail- 
road passes. The stork meanwhile had hovered o'er our 
dwelling and left a baby girl, so that * papa ' for the next year 
pushed his pencil and directed the presses by day, and walked 
the floor at night. 

*' In addition to our local work I was seashore correspond- 
ent for several metropolitan papers, and reported the proceed- 
ings of the mid-winter sessions of the New Jersey Legislature. 

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'* Three years after the stork left us the baby girl, he 
concluded she would be lonesome without a brother — 

** I might add that I was elected to fill different political 
offices, of more or less consequence, at various times, and Dame 
Fortune while never prodigal, generally rewarded our labors 
with a fair share of her favors. 

** It had always been my desire to study medicine. The 
thought still skirmished in my brain cells, and one day, twelve 
years after quitting the University, I determined to carry out 
the idea. I feared to speak to my wife about it, but to my 
surprise, she not only encouraged me in the idea, but planned 
to help me carry it out. 

** I disposed of my interests in the printing establishment, 
and matriculated at the New York Homeopathic Medical 
College. It wks hard work — leaving Asbury Park at six 
A. M., and returning at 8.30 p. m. 

'* The course was practically uneventful further than that 
I was elected Assistant Editor of the ' College Magazine ' in 
my junior year, and Editor the last year. 

" After graduation I took the New York State Regent's 
Examination, obtained license to practise there, and later re- 
ceived license to practise in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 
Have taken special courses in Clinical Microscopy and Bac- 
teriology at the New York Post Graduate College and Hos- 
pital and a course in Osteopathy, at the Philadelphia College 
of Osteopathy, receiving the additional title of D.O. 

" My home is still at Asbury Park where I am associated 
professionally with Dr. Joseph A. Bryan. We have all we 
can do in the summer, and a branch office at Lakewood dur- 
ing the winter. 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

*' I want to say in closing that I have one of the best wives 
in the world, and my success, if I have attained any, is due 
as much to her as to myself. Our daughter — Mabel Helen 
— is now 17, and will enter Wellesley next September. The 
boy — Wilbur — is 13, and enters the high school in the fall. 
He is nearly as tall as his * dad,' is an enthusiast in athletics, 
and is as good as the average ' kid ' in his studies. Among 
the decorations of his room is one of my old Princeton flags, 
which he prizes highly, and he is looking anxiously forward 
to the time when he will be numbered among the sons of ' Old 
Nassau.' 

** Now then, fellows, you have it in a crude way, from 
start to finish. What the next twenty vears will bring to us 
all is a question, but whether I live twenty or forty years 
longer my affection for Princeton and the class of 1884 will 
only be that much stronger. May we not hope that 'some- 
time, somewhere,' we shall renew the old fellowships never 
again to be broken. Burt." 

GEORGE P. BUTLER, A.B., A.M., 

BROKER, 35 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. 

Butler is one of the successful members of our class. 
After some little drifting around after graduation he settled 
into his proper channel, and then his progress was remarkable. 
When he graduated he announced that he was undecided as 
to his future course. 

He soon went to Lawrenceville as professor, where he re- 
mained until 1892. While there he was very successful as a 
teacher. He also devoted himself to literary work ; he wrote 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

a text-book entitled "School English," a manual for use in 
connection with the written English work of secondary 
schools. This was a simple and clear book of instruction in 
rhetoric, addressed to pupils of fifteen or sixteen years of age. 
It w^as said by the book reviewers of the time that " in offer- 
ing this manual Mr. Butler has done something that was well 
worth while." He also rewrote, revised and completed the 
School History of the United States, which Professor Johnston 
had in preparation before his death. 

In 1893 Butler went into Wall Street, where he served 
in various capacities until i 898, when, with his brother Arthur, 
Princeton, '92, he formed the firm of Geo. P. Butler & Bro. 

Butler is said to be very expert in analyzing corporation 
figures and reports, and he has great facility in estimating the 
value of commercial projects and devising methods of reor- 
ganization of companies and a readjustment of their finances. 
His reputation in these particulars has become widespread, 
and he has developed a large business. It is commonly stated 
in the newspapers that Geo. P. Butler & Bro. "are recognized 
Gould brokers." Since the firm was formed J. H. McClement 
and W. B. Lawrence have been taken into partnership. 

On the 24th of June, 1886, Butler was married to Miss 
Ellen Mudge, daughter of Mr. Daniel C. Mudge. They 
have an interesting family of four daughters and three sons. 

GEORGE H. CARPENTER, A.B., 

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, 24/ PEARL STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

After graduation Carpenter w^as engaged to tutor some 
young men desiring to enter Princeton, and the summer ot 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

1884 was spent at Newport, Rhode Island, with a result that 
several men who have since been famous at Princeton were 
safely entered there in the fall. Then Carpenter turned his 
attention to the study of law in the office of Dillon & Swayne, 
New York City. While there he became engaged in the 
organization of several companies, and it appearing that he 
had pronounced executive ability he was placed at the head 
of one of these manufacturing enterprises. 

Thereafter certain legal difficulties arose, and these were 
made the occasion for somewhat extended articles in certain 
newspapers. None of the matters, however, were brought 
to trial until Carpenter forced a libel suit upon the New 
York '' Journal." This was strenuously contested, and after 
a long trial before a jury in New York City Carpenter was 
victorious. 

In the meantime, however, he had been industriously at 
work inending his shattered fortune, with the result that every 
dollar of the old debts was paid in full and prosperity was 
again in sight. 

In 1889 he organized the Kauff Organ Company of Phil- 
adelphia, which at that time was the largest pipe organ com- 
pany in the world. Later Carpenter became interested with 
the Equitable Mortgage Company and with George Ames 
of Boston and with Carroll D. Wright in the securities of 
certain companies. 

About 1895 ^^ ^^^ asked to look into the question of 
combustion and fire extinguishers. An extended study was 
made into the subject, and an entirely new theory of extin- 
guishing incipient fires was suggested by Carpenter, namely, 
by a dry inste-ad of a liquid process. This was a revolution 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

in the business. A new powder was patented to which the 
name of " Kilfyre " was given, and the ** Monarch Fire Ap- 
pliance Company " was organized to exploit it. Success 
attended the enterprise from the start. Carpenter continued 
the study of the subject of combustion in its incipient stages, 
and we have been told by the officers of insurance companies 
that he is to-day a recognized authority on that subject in 
this country, and as such is consulted as an expert by the 
United States Government departments and many of the largest 
transportation, telegraph and electric light companies. 

The financial success of the matter, we are told, has 
been phenomenal, so much so that the Pope Manufacturing 
Company has bought out the selling rights of " Kilfyre," 
leaving Carpenter at the head of the manufacturing at a 
princely compensation. 

Carpenter was married in 1886 to Miss Josephine Laird, 
daughter of Hon. John H. Laird of Elizabethtown, New 
Jersey. They have one son, George H. Carpenter, who is 
now 1 7 years of age. 

ALBERT A. CASTLE, A.B., LL.B. 

Castle has not been heard from for many years. It is 
reported that he is dead. After leaving college he studied 
law at Cincinnati University, Ohio, from which he graduated 
with the title of LL.B. in 1886. Efforts were made to reach 
him when the Class record of 1889 was in preparation but 
without success. He has given no word about himself 
His office was at No. 41 Pikes Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
His home address was Alexandria, Ohio. 



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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

SAMUEL M. CAULDWELL, C.E., 

ARCHITECT, ANDREW J. ROBINSON CO., GENERAL BUILDING CON- 
TRACTORS, 123 EAST 23D STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

Cauldwell entered the Newell Universal Mills Company 
after his college course as mechanical engineer. Afterwards 
he was one of the engineers for the Bentley-Knight Electric 
Railway Company, in 1889, ^^^ ^^^ ^^'^^ associated with 
Blackwell and Aleck Moffat. 

In 1899 he was a member of the architectural firm of 
Howard, Cauldwell & Morgan, and he is at present in the 
Andrew J. Robinson Company, general building contractors 
and engineers. 

He says the various steps in his business career have been 
"front, rear and area steps, fire-escapes and ladders as incident 
to building operations in general." 

He was associated with Thomas Shields Clarke, '82, in 
the important sculptural monument designed to be placed be- 
tween Whig and Clio Halls, on the Princeton campus. The 
idea of the monument is, " The college graduate bringing 
gifts to his Alma Mater." 

The architectural part of the monument has been designed 
bv Cauldwell. If you will look at this model in the Art Build- 
ing, we think you will be proud of the artistic ability of one 
of our classmates. 

Cauldwell was married on December 12th, 1894, to Miss 
Julia Maria Valentine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Man- 
son Valentine, at 605 Madison Avenue, New York. He has 
four children — whose "ages vary from two to eight." 

"His writings consist," he says, "of advertisements for 
cooks wanted, for which see N. Y. Herald May 5th, 1895; 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

Please give a Complete Record since Graduation . 

I. Present business address -f*v!l5&.3.....^<?t.i2^. ^3J^.x^.: '^ - ^ ^ • ^^ 



Name of firm or zom•^2^\y.....C^^<c/^C^Z£,CiJ^..^../-!::^^^^ 

Your residence /^:^J4<.<?c^t*<^.'^^i^;ta^t,t^^i^ ^^. jZ^.,. 

2. If married, give date and place tG^^^ /S'^^ —^ ^t^'^ .^^■^^^ 

Name of wife ^i^d!ZfCk-i^<^Z^^^^<JZ^ _. 

Name of her parents.... .^ZJ^Ii^S^.. 

Any classmates present at wedding yk^ ^ JhXJL ^AiJL^ 

Name and ages of any children -^O^^C^C^^ ^^ 4UUjt4.4C^y 'i^^ 

^^J^. .<?r?^^c^,'^^..'^^ _ _.. 

3. Give the various steps in your business or professional career. 

Tl^p:>*^..f.{%^:<&iA/..t^ ..<2^ 

.,Z.CUU./S^^^k^. -^ *&,^^£^t!L.cM..^^^ir4^^^^ 



4. Please give details regarding foUowmg : — 

Any degrees, titles or honors you have received (^^^<^fi^c^..^Ar^-<?:f^^:4^4L..^!£^/tyoU 

/Z^^^ficC "j^^t^ <f^ ^<>^^4.<.^IjC^^^ - - 

Any office or position, public, semi-public, political, military or commercial you 

have filled .^'iC&^ j24if<^Z./^^...<^^ d*. 

..<:>«<<_ ':Z£r<^^^<h^ <> 



5. Have any of your writings been printed or published. Give complete list with date 

S. M. C.\ULDWELL 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 
6. Of what societies, clubs, Boards or organizations of any kind have you been a member 

.^U,d,ld'<A/ AJ!;-j^<^^ 

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7. If you are not married, what apologies have you to offer — C7^2^£<^.^]:^^^2^in^<:^ , 



8. What is your fondest ambition .7^....^*i^r<?^^:<<^<<i... Ji^^j^f -4.<5>^-«- 



9. What personal achievement in the past twenty years has given you the most satis- 
faction lS^cC&^''<^ ^'^^Z:^^^^ C^^^;nc^rz^ . J^ . /tJlA^C. f 

10. In what ways do you think you have changed since graduation ^J«,ir-*.^/z<.....&^&«^i^^/^ 

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11. What accomplishments have you . -C^il^a^ ^^^yt,^^tn^t,*<j tt^€ZZL So^^,c^t^ yli%fe.£/ic-/t^ 



12. Have you any. fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they.. 



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13. What is your favorite leisure occupation Z2??i^:^2^i^'2^.....,^4^.o^Z-^i!5:2,-2SiT^<^ 

14. What social pleasure do you most enjoy P^C^^^c^c^^.^.^^. ..^</i^...-.^i^:^!tU'C<^^^[^^^ 



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15. What is your ideal of perfect contentment ^^£?...>''i^^^l^:^c^a55*:^-/.....^i^.....*Kt<«r2^C^^O 



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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

June 1st, 1896; August loth, 1897, ^^*^-' ^^^-5 ^^^ ^is ideal 
of perfect contentment would be to receive a favorable reply 
to one of these advertisements." 

The following answers have been received to the class 
questions : 

*' I have received the thirty-second degree and title of 
Esquire." 

"Filled a small office in police station for one night." 

Changed since graduation? "Grown larger around the 
chest and below." 

Accomplishments : " Can perform with equal facility on 
following instruments : cornet, flute, sackbut, psaltery, dul- 
cimer." 

Cauldwell is just as bright and successful in his business 
as he is in answering class letters. His firm of Howard & 
Cauldwell stood very high in architecture in New York, They 
did some very substantial and highly artistic work, and a great 
deal of it. His present firm are very large operators in the 
largest and best class of buildings. 

Cauldwell has made good use of his time and his talents. 
The wolf never bothers his door, and we guess it never will. 

Rev. WILLIAM CHESTER, A. B., A.M., 

CLERGYMAN, 343O GRAND AVENUE, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 

Chester entered the Union Theological Seminary im- 
mediately after leaving Princeton and graduated three years 
later, in 1887. He was co-pastor of the Phillips Presbyte- 
rian Church, Madison Avenue, New York City, from 1887 to 
1889 ; pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church of Mil- 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

waukee, Wisconsin, from 188910 1898, and eleve avance de la 
Faculte de TheologieProtestante de /' Universitede Paris from 1898— 
1 90 1 . At present he is living at 3430 Grand Avenue, Milwau- 
kee, Wisconsin, and while temporarily without charge is de- 




REV. WILLIAM CHF.STF.R 



voting himself to authorship. Chester was married on July 
22d, I 890, at Milwaukee, the name of his wife being Marion 
Merrill Smith, fiee Marion Merrill ; her parents Mr. and 
Mrs. Sherburn Sanborn Merrill. No classmates were pres- 
ent at the wedding. He has two children, William Merrill 
Chester, 1 1 years of age, and Norman Merrill Chester, 7 
years of age. His stepson, Sherburn Merrill Smith, is now in 
Princeton in the class of '06. Chester has done considerable 
writing and has in preparation for publication in New York a 
work entitled: " Does Consciousness Survive Brain Dissolu- 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

tion ? or The Witness of Science, Philosophy and Religion to 
Immortality." He is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati 
of the State of Connecticut, the Town Club of Milwaukee, 
and the Tennis Club of Paris. His fondest ambition, he 
says, is " domestic happiness and usefulness to humanity," 
and the personal achievement that has given him the most 
satisfaction has been " the broadening of his theological 
thought by scientific, philosophical and higher criticism 
studies." His favorite leisure occupation is reading and ten- 
nis. The editors of the Record are surprised that Billy makes 
no mention of bicycling. None of the boys can forget Billy's 
achievements on the high wheel in college days. The very 
mention of his name recalls a group of open-eyed, open- 
mouthed boys of '84 assembled in front of the old chapel 
with *' Billy" in the centre on one of the old-fashioned high 
wheels doing breakneck stunts. Can it be that the arrival of 
the prosaic safety wheel has destroyed his enthusiasm for the 
sport by eliminating the element of danger ? Tennis is all 
right, and we have no doubt that Billy does credit to the 
Class in the courts, but for our part — if only for the sake of 
the old days — we would like to see him once again astride 
of the daring wheel. Chester writes that his ideal of perfect 
contentment in life is " to have sufficient resources of intel- 
lect, heart and spirit to be comparatively independent of sur- 
rounding circumstances." 

Since the above was written Chester has resigned the pas- 
torate of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in order to go 
to Europe and study under Auguste Sabatier at the Univer- 
sity of Paris. 

His book, entitled 'Tmmortality a Rational Faith," has 
just been published. 

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HENRY F. COAN, A.B. 

Coan died in 1886. He went into the study of medi- 
cine, but died before he finished his course. Appendicitis 
was the cause. It is said his life might have been spared to 
us if surgery had at that time been as far advanced as it now 
is with that disease. 



WILLIAM E. COLLIS, 

CHESTER, N. J. 

ColHs really belongs to '82, but since he was with us a 
short time we make some claim to him. One of William E. 
Collis's friends says of him: *'He has been foremanof oneof our 
Grand Juries and has taken considerable interest in political 
affairs, at one time being seriously considered as the Republi- 
can candidate for Senator from Morris County. I have heard 
him make excellent speeches." 

CoUis was married on May 28, 1885, to Miss Anna 
Louise Warner, and they have two children, Mary Louise, 
born May 2, 1886; William Edwin, Jr., October 5, 1887. 

He is at present associated with the Wheeler and Wilson 
Sewing Machine Company, at Bridgeport, Connecticut. 

THOMAS C. COLTMAN, Ph. G. 

PHARMACIST, LA JUNTA, COL. 

After a silence of five years Coltman reported for himself 
in 1889 that he had left college at the end of Freshman year, 
expecting to return, but owing to financial reasons he had 
not been able to do so. 

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For the same financial reasons he entered a pharmacy in 
Camden, New Jersey, to learn the drug business. He re- 
mained in Camden one year, and afterward removed to Jenk- 
intown, Pennsylvania, where he accepted a position with J. 
W. Ridpath. He attended courses during this time at the 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which he graduated 
as a Ph. G. in April, 1885. He married Miss Emily Nice 
of Jenkintown, on October 7, 1886, and went into partner- 
ship with Mr. Ridpath in 1888. This partnership was dis- 
solved in October, 1892, and Thomas Coltman became the 
name of the business. 

Owing to the health of his wife, Coltman sold his busi- 
ness in Jenkintown in November, 1901, and removed to La 
Junta, Colorado. 

His wife's health improved under new skies, and he bought 
a drug store in La Junta in January, 1902. Thomas Her- 
bert Coltman was born on May 5, 1890. 

Coltman has held local positions of confidence in Jenkin- 
town, and has written for the newspapers. 

His favorite leisure occupation is gunning, and he says he 
has no accomplishments. 

FRANCIS L. COOLIDGE, A.B. 

COTTON BROKER, 112 WATER STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 

"Just after graduation I spent a few weeks in northern 
Virginia. Passed the rest of my vacation with my parents at 
our summer home in Cutries, Cape Cod. The latter part ol 
September I took a short trip to Montreal and Quebec. In 
October I entered a three years' apprenticeship in the ma- 

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chine shops of the Boston Manufacturing Co. in Wakham, 
Mass. 

" In April I went into the draughting rooms of the Law- 
rence Manufacturing Co. of Lowell, Mass., where I stayed 
until November, 1887. Then I traveled and loafed — mostly 
the latter — until April i, 1888. 

*' In April of that year I entered the Bay State Trust Co., 
Boston, an institution incorporated by the State of Massachu- 
setts for banking purposes, in connection with deposit vaults 
for the safe keeping of bonds, stocks, jewelry, plate, etc. My 
part was to look after the vaults. 

*' My reasons for leaving Lowell were shorter hours, more 
salary, and living at home. 

*' I continued in the banking business until 1895, ^^^^ 
since then have been a cotton broker. 

^' My present business address is i i 2 Water Street, Boston, 
under the firm name of Coolidge, Cummings & Co., com- 
posed of Francis L. Coolidge, Frank A. Cummings, and J. 
Arthur Brooks. 

*' I was elected to Boston School Committee in December, 
1896 for three years, beginning January, 1897, ^^^ ^^^ ^^~ 
elected to the same for three years, beginning January, 
1900. 

" I was Secretary of Young Men's Democratic Club of 
Massachusetts from August, 1896, to January, i 901, and Sec- 
retary of Princeton Alumni Association of New England." 
[Coolidge was Secretary of Princeton Alumni for several terms. 
He made such a stirring speech at meeting of club in Boston, 
May I 5, I 902, that he was re-elected Secretary of club. — Ed.] 
He is also a member of the Puritan Club in Boston. 

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On November 19, 1901, Coolidge was married to Miss 
Alice Brackett White. 

He says that the only changes of the past twenty years 
are that *' I have lost some hair from top of my head, and 




FRANCIS L. COOLIDGE 



have had three wisdom teeth extracted. I am going along 
in the even tenor of my way, and enjoying myself as well as 
I can. I have no ideal of perfect contentment, and my fixed 
habits, good or bad, are — loafing." 

Coolidge is a Gold Democrat. 

Coolidge has served Princeton well. We are told by a 
Bostonian that he is largely responsible for the Princeton 

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Clubs of Boston and New England. He has ever been ready 
with time and energy and money to forward the interests of 
his Alma Mater. He has rendered good service also to the 
cause of good government in filling a difficult position in the 
school board, where with tact and firmness " Tommy " al- 
ways stood for the best interest of education, and steadfastly 
resisted putting that department into politics. 

ANDREW McNAIR COYLE, 

MECHANICAL ENGINEER, OTIS ELEVATOR CO.,17 BATTERY PLACE, 
NEW YORK CITY. 

After leaving Princeton, Coyle spent some time in Boston, 
with a manufacturing company, and then began business in 
Washington, D. C, as general contractor. 

He took out his first patent in 1886, and has been en- 
gaged in experimental work more or less since that time. 

" Most of my work," he says, "is in the scrap heap, but 
some has come into general use, particularly the devices in 
connection with electric elevators." 

He has been connected with several elevator companies. 
He is now with the Otis Company, and has been for some 
time past. 

In 1888, he married Miss Virginia S. Knox, of Rich- 
mond, Virginia, and has two children — Andrew McNair, Jr., 
14; Mary Brook Temple, 13. 

Coyle shows a fine class-spirit, by thanking the Secretary 
and Class General for " keeping track of him all of these 
years," and ends his letter thus : " I have no great things to 
report but I am on deck, well and hearty and it is a great pleas- 
ure to me to greet my old classmates." 

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ALEXANDER CRAWFORD, 

OCCUPATION AND ADDRESS UNKNOWN. 

It is funny how a man will " fall off the earth " appar- 
ently, and leave no trace of himself whatever. 

Crawford left college early in our course, and from that 
day to this nothing has been heard of him. Someone said 
he was in the United States Navy. The Department reported 
several Alexander Crawfords, and we ran each one down. 
One turned out to be a Commander in the Navy, but knew 
us not. Another was a Chaplain who likewise disclaimed any 
knowledge of Princeton. A third was a seaman who might 
be the Son of some of us old chaps. Then someone turned 
us loose on a new trail, which we followed through many 
and devious ways, finally to end in the studv of a genial 
old gentleman in New England, old enough to be the 
father of any of us, and who proclaimed his allegiance to 
Dartmouth, and disclaimed all other. Then a new scent 
was started at a hospital in Philadelphia that led to a pau- 
per's grave. 

And there we are. Can anyone make any new sugges- 
tions ? 

ALBERT N. CRECRAFT, 

EDITOR, FRANKLIN, INDIANA. 

Crecraft left us in Freshman year and it has been a long 
search to find him again, but we finally located a prosperous, 
busy editor at the above address and he proved to be our class- 
mate. 

His paper is the Franklin Democrat, A. F. Crecraft, pro- 
prietor. 

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He is married and has two sons, one eighteen years of 
age and one eight. He has been located at Franklin, Indi- 
ana, for over twelve years. In his letter he sends "A cordial 
greeting to you and all Princeton men." 

WILLIAM DARLING, 

WEST END TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. 

The following letter from Darling tells his story : 

" I was in hopes I would escape but Jack Kennedy 
threatens to write mv ^autobiography,' if Ifail to come to time, 
so in order to head him off, I will try to answer your questions, 
as I remember them. I think a general negative will answer 
most of them. I am not married nor have I any children. 
Why am I not married ? You will have to ask the other sex ; 
a general lack of appreciation on their part is the only way 
I can account for it. 

'' I have never been in politics nor have I received any titles 
or honors. I spent a number of years, immediately after 
leaving college, ranching with Kennedy in Wyoming ; for 
the past three years I have been in the employ of Joe Black- 
well, and at present am stationed in Philadelphia, which lat- 
ter fact I think will be sufficient to show anyone other than 
a Philadelphian, to what straits I have been reduced. 

'* Hoping the reunion this coming June will be a great suc- 
cess and that I will have the good luck to get there I am sin- 
cerely yours, 

William Darling." 

Darling is a member of the Westmoreland Club of Wilkes- 
barre, Pennsylvania. 

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JOHN C. DAVES, 

ROOM 32, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING, BALTIMORE, MD. 

Daves is now the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of 
the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, also Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce Building Company. 




JOHN C. DAVES 



A short time after leaving college he filled the office ot United 
States Engineer at Memphis, Tenn. From there he v^^ent to 
the Railroad Building, Tallahassee, Florida, and afterwards to 
the American District Telegraph, Baltimore, Md. His home 
address is i 36 West Lamballe Street, Baltimore. He was mar- 

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ried to Nita K. Pitt on December 3, 1898, in Baltimore. 
The names of her parents were Faris C. Pitt and Nettie G. 
Wood Pitt. The only classmate mentioned by Daves as pres- 
ent at the wedding was Josiah Low Blackwell. Daves is a 
member of a number of societies, including the Society of the 
Cincinnati, the Society of the Colonial Wars, Sons of The 
Revolution, Foreign Wars, University Club of Baltimore, 
Tennessee Club of Memphis, Princeton Alumni Association 
of Maryland, and the North Carolina Society of Baltimore. 
We would like very much to be able to print a number of 
interesting tacts covered bv the questions sent out to the class, 
but in Daves's case we are unable to do so, for he is very un- 
communicative. He '* dodges " all the questions relating to 
his ambitions, his personal achievements, his habits, his leis- 
ure occupation, and his social pleasures. We must be con- 
tent, therefore, with picturing Jack as happily married and 
comfortably settled in life. We are sure that he is all this 
from the tone of the answers that he gives us, and we know 
from old times that he is popular in his circle, and that he 
enjoys social pleasures. It does seem to us, however, that he 
might have told us more about himself. 

CHARLES E. DAVIS, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, NEW YORK CITY. 

Davis has not been heard from. We have gleaned the 
following facts here and there : After graduation Davis started 
to study law in New Jersey. Davis was admitted to the New 
Jersey Bar, and graduated from Columbia Law School, New 
York City. In our last Record he wrote : *' Like the Corpora- 

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tions of the Metropolis, I am now existing under and by 
virtue of the laws of the State of New York, having my prin- 
cipal place of business in the Potter Building in New York 
City." 

Davis has also studied theology. He went through the 
Seminary at Princeton from which he graduated, and later 
entered the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal 
Church in New York. This led to several years of mission- 
ary work in the State of Washington. Later Davis was found 
engaged in law at Boise City, Idaho, and later he came back 
and settled at New York. 



LEONIDAS DENNIS, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

lAWYER, 66 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK. 

Having graduated from Columbia Law School in May, 
1886, Dennis was admitted to the bar the next month and 
began the practice of the law in New York City. 

In the '89 Record he says that "only success and encour- 
agement have been" shown him in his profession. 

He is now the Attorney for the United States Fidelity and 
Guaranty Company, which does one of the largest surety and 
indemnity businesses in New York City. His position is one of 
great importance and responsibility and commands a fine 
compensation. 

Dennis was married on April i6, 1890, at Kingston, New 
York, to Miss Mary Shafer, daughter of C. B. Shafer. Billy 
Shaw was present at the wedding. We believe he has no 
children. Dennis lives in New York most of the time, but 
has a fine home at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. 

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EDWARD B. DOLTON, A.B., 

WHOLESALE GROCERIES, TRENTON, N. J. 

Dolton has been in the business of wholesale groceries 
ever since he left Princeton. 

He has been prominent in business and social circles of 
Trenton. He was at onetime president of the Board of Trade 
and a director and one of the largest stock holders of the 
Standard Fire Insurance Companies. 

In November, 1902, he lost a good sized fortune from 
unfortunate speculations in stocks. 

He was married on June 5, i 888, to Miss Maude Ralston 
Pierce, and has two boys, "who are studying hard and play- 
ing hard in order to qualify themselves intellectually and 
physically for the honor of Princeton University." 

Dolton is a Mason, and was in the militia, from which he 
was honorably discharged after live years of service. 

Dolton's letter says : "If I should go back to 1884 and 
relate the experiences of iny life since that date, I am afraid 
the Class History would be cumbersome. I will, therefore, 
limit myself to facts which are interesting to the class. 

" In looking back over the past twenty years I can readily 
see the mistakes which have been many, yet at the same time 
I feel grateful that I am alive and able still to cheer for ' old 
Nassau.' " 

SAMUEL G. DORNBLASER, A.B., A.M., 

CLERGYMAN, HAGERSTOWN, MD. 

" Immediately after graduation I spent three months trav- 
eling through the West. 



THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

" I entered the Theological Seminary in old historic 
Gettysburg in September, 1884, and spent three of the most 
delightful years of my academic life in that institution. 

'' In July, 1887, I entered upon the work of the minis- 
try in Johnsviile, Ohio. 




SAMUEL G- DORNBLASER 



" College companionship was greatly missed in this quiet 
town, and so after three and a half months, I concluded to 
take a life companion — a wife — who ever since has been a 
help and inspiration to the parson." 

Dornblaser was married on October 11, 1887, at Spring- 
field, Ohio. His wife was Miss Carrie Tressler Billow, and 

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they have three children: Helen Tressler, 14; Ruth Miller, 
10; George Billow, 6. 

In May, 1890, he removed to Emporia, Kansas, where, 
he says : " Among other delightful people, we found some 
Princeton men." 

From }une, 1894, to March, 1903, Dornblaser was pas- 
tor of the Munro Avenue Lutheran Church of Columbus, Ohio. 

He now writes : '' Just recently we have taken up our abode 
in* Maryland, my Maryland,' and already we feel quite at home 
in the East, from whence I hail. As to * personal achieve- 
ments,' * accomplishments,' * habits,' ' leisure occupations,' 
' pleasures,' etc., I have nothing to say. I might say, how- 
ever, that it would have been wise to have inquired of the 
wives of the married men as to the habits of their noble lords." 

Dornblaser received his A.M. from Princeton in 1888. 

Has filled several positions in connection with the Synod 
of Ohio and the Luther League. He is a member of the 
Board of Directors of Wittenburg College and of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the Luther League of Ohio. 

Dr. MALVERN H. DUE, 

PHYSICIAN, 117 N. I9TH ST., BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 

Due left our class and thereafter became numbered with 
the class of '85 and is accredited a member of that class. 
In their record issued in 1901 the following facts are re- 
corded. 

*' My career since leaving Princeton has been very un- 
eventful. I was graduated with degree of M.D., from the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in May, 

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1888. Served as interne in Jersey City Hospital from May, 
'88, to May, '89. After resting a month in Montgomery, 
Alabama, I began practising my profession in that young 
and prosperous iron center of the South, Birmingham, Alabama, 
where I now am and expect to remain until iron goes out of 
use or I am consigned to the dust. I have lived in no other 
city and have diligently attended to the practice of medicine. 

On November 9, 1892, I was married in Montgomery, 
Alabama, to Miss Annie E. Clauton. Have one child, a 
daughter, born on October 2, 1893. -^^^ name is Juliette 
Clauton Due. I have never taken any part in politics. We 
have only one party in local and state affairs. 

In 1897, Birmingham had an epidemic of small-pox. I 
was appointed City Health Officer with forty men under me 
to put down the epidemic. This we succeeded in accom- 
plishing. I am now United States physician for the United 
States prisoners in this district and am also a member of 
the Board o£ United States Examining Surgeons for pen- 
sions. 

I know only one other Princeton man besides myselt in 
Birmingham — Dr. E. H. Sholl, '53. 

In conclusion, I would add, as a whole, the world has 
treated me fairly well. I have a good practice and am as 
happy as the ordinary man ever becomes. 

CHARLES B. DUNN, A.B., A.M., 

COUNSELLOR AT LAW, ROOMS / AND 8, ROMAINE BUILDING, PATER- 
SON, N. J. 

After graduation and until September, 1886, Dunn stud- 
ied law at Newton, New Jersey, in the law office of Martin 

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Rosenkranz, '67. He then taught school in Hamburg, New 
Jersey, keeping up the law studies at the same time. 

He was a great success in his teaching, but abandoned it 
to become admitted to the bar in '87. 

He *' flung his shingle to the breeze " in Paterson, New 
Jersey, and has been there ever since. He is in partnership 
with his brother Michael, '81. They have a very large law 
practice and one or the other of them is in nearly every fa- 
mous trial in Paterson and vicinity. 

They are dominating factors in local politics and are said 
to be the '* power behind the throne." 

Dunn is not married. Perhaps because he still " lacks 
the courage of his convictions," as he said in '89. 



G. W. DYSINGER, M.D., D.D.S., 

I307-I309 WASHINGTON AVENUE, NORTH MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 

Dysinger was in the class of 1884 but one year, when he 
was obliged to leave to seek the favor of Dame Fortune, in 
order to gain the necessary funds to continue his course. 

He taught public school in Wyoming County, Penn., in 
I 881-1882, but hard luck and misfortune being his portion 
in the East, he turned his face westward and went out to 
Minneapolis in September, 1882. 

He entered the State University there, and pursued a 
course of study in medicine, surgery, and dentistry, gradu- 
ating in March, 1886, with the two degrees of M.D. and 
D.D.S. 

He practised in a general way until February, 1890, since 

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which time he has specialized in dentistry and is very suc- 
cessful. Fortune, whose favor he sought in earlier years, has 
bestowed upon him a comfortable and well-secured compe- 
tence. 

Dysinger was married March 17, 1885, to Miss Emily 
E. Mummah, of Mifflintown, Pa. 

They had one son — Raymond Girard — who was acci- 
dently shot while gunning on August 14, 1902. He died 
two days afterwards in the 1 4th year of his age. 

The shock of his son's death was so overwhelming that 
Dr. Dysinger has spent most of the past year in travelling ex- 
tensively in the far west and islands of the Pacific. 

H is a Presbyterian, a Knight Templar, and member of 
the Consistory 32*^. 

SENECA EGBERT, A.B., A.M., M.D., 

PHYSICIAN, PROFESSOR, 48 I4 SPRINGFIELD AVE., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

People in and around Philadelphia look up to Egbert as 
an acknowledged authority in hygiene and sanitation, and nu- 
merous kindred subjects. Medical authorities in charge of 
the medical colleges have recognized his ability, and have 
given him very important chairs in their institutions. 

His success, however, might have been expected. Egbert 
came of good stock. He was a high-stand man at Andover, 
where he prepared for college. And we all remember he 
was always among the leaders in our class. 

Egbert's great-grandfather — William Egbert — was a sol- 
dier in the Revolutionary war. His original maternal ances- 
tor in America was Joseph Phipps, an Englishman and a 

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friend of William Penn, who emigrated to Philadelphia in 
1682, and became a member of the first Pennsylvania as- 
sembly. 

Seneca Egbert graduated from the Medical Course in the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1888. 

He was made Demonstrator of Hygiene in the latter Uni- 
versity in 1888, where he remained four years, being lecturer 
on Hygiene from 1890—92. He has been Professor of Hy- 
giene and Sanitation in the Medico-Chirurgical College of 
Philadelphia since June, 1893, and Dean of the Medical De- 
partment of the same college since January 3, 1898. 

He is also lecturer on Hygiene at P. E. Church Train- 
ing School (since 1892) and in the Ludwick-Institute course 
of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 

He was Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene 
in Temple College, Philadelphia, from 1896— 1899. He was vis- 
iting surgeon to the Northern Home for Friendless Children 
from 1889— 1892. 

Dr. Egbert was married on September 26, 1888, at Frank- 
lin, Pa., to Miss Nancy McClellan Bredin, a daughter of Dr. 
Stephen L. C. Bredin. Heydrick was present at the wedding. 

They have two children, Albert Victor, who will be i 5 
years old in July, and Catherine Bredin, 14 in May. 

He is author of: "A Manual of Hygiene and Sanitation," 
now in its 3d edition; a text book in over thirty-live medical 
schools in this country. He has also written numerous arti- 
cles for medical journals, etc., and read the Annual Address 
on Hygiene and State Medicine at the Annual Meeting of 
the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, September 22, 1903. 

Egbert writes of himself as follows : " I must admit that 

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Dame Fortune has been very good to me and mine, and that 
her unmarried daughter has kept very much out of my way. 
I am especially thankful to her for so many imbibitions of the 
" Spiritus Princetoniensis," that I am still — and I hope for- 




SENECA EGBERT 



ever — under its influence. As you will see by the accompa- 
nying sheet, I have been associated with college students every 
year but one since I entered Princeton with you in 1880, and 
feel that this has had much to do with my optimism. 

" Each year now I have almost four hundred medical stu- 
dents under my deanship, and lecture to considerably more 

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than half of them. You may be sure that I find plenty of 
problems and emergencies that call for decision ; but few men 
could have more congenial work than I find it. 

'* One of my ' grads' — Dr. Carnochan — did much to keep 
the foot-ball team in good condition this fall, and we have 
occasionally others coming from Princeton that help me to 
infuse something of that aforementioned * spirit ' into the rest 
of the mass. 

*' What more can I say ? If a man is only as old as he 
feels, then no man of 1884 is younger. However, please 
don't call as a witness of this my perennial freshness. I do 
trust that most of the fellows have had as much of success as 
I, and that they have been able to gather in more of Uncle 
Sam's dollars. Dame Fortune could have treated me better in 
that respect, though that is what everyone says of his own luck. 
I think I have grown somewhat younger since graduation. 
The social pleasure which I most enjoy, is attending Prince- 
ton Reunions, and seeing Princeton lick Yale. 

" I certainly hope and expect to be at the Reunion next 
June, so keep m.e posted." 

Egbert is an Independent Democrat and a member of the 
following clubs : Kappa Psi Fraternity, American Medical 
Association, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, Philadelphia 
County Medical Society, Philadelphia Medical Club, Amer- 
ican Public Health Association, Philadelphia Academy of 
Natural Sciences, Associate Member of Princeton Club of 
Philadelphia. 

He says : " His fondest ambition is to be Dean of a Prince- 
ton Medical School, or to have Woodrow Wilson's place 
when he doesn't want it any longer." 

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WILLIAM ERDMAN, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, 141 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 

Here is a quiet, silent man, who just '* saws wood and 
says nuffin." He studied law at Columbia, New York, and 
took his degree of LL.B. He entered into an association 
for the practice of the law in New York City with Job 
Hedges, and they have been together ever since. 

That he has been successful and has made for himself a 
place at the bar in New York City, we know by our own ob- 
servation. Rest assured you would never have learned that 
from Erdman. We know, too, that he has a fondness for 
the sea, and is the owner of a trim little yacht on which he 
spends most of his leisure time when he can dodge his clients 
and get away. 

DR. ALEXANDER B. ERNST. 

Poor "Alec" died in Cincinnati shortly after our Quin- 
quennial Reunion. 

After leaving college he studied medicine, spending one 
year with a preceptor, and then entering the Ohio Medical 
College, from which he graduated in 1888, and accepted a 
position as one of the resident physicians in the " Good 
Samaritan Hospital," Cincinnati, Ohio. His term of ser- 
vice there expired in March, 1889, and he started out for 
himself as Dr. Alexander B. Ernst, No. 149 Broadway, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. Thereafter he was appointed District 
Physician. He only lived a short while to continue his 
profession. 

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GEORGE ROSS ESHLEMAN 



GEORGE ROSS ESHLEMAN, A.M., 

LAWYER,. NO. 48 NORTH DUKE STREET, LANCASTER, PA. 

Lawyer and editor of law papers, Eshleman claims as an 
accomplishment " ability to pay his debts." A good one in- 
deed. His greatest personal achievement since graduation he 
declares to have been matrimony. On June i, 1893, ^^ 
married at Lancaster, Pa., Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of S. 
S. and Emeline Spencer. He is a member of the Hershel 
Lodge, No. 123, L O. O. F. ; also Lancaster Lodge No. 134 
P. P. O. E. ; Hamilton Club of Lancaster ; Lancaster County 
Club ; Young Republican Club of Lancaster, and the Y. M. 
C. A. Eshleman studied law in his father's office at Lan- 

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caster, and was admitted to the bar in September of 1886. 
We know of him as a busy and successful man, although he 
claims to *' have acquired a disposition to abide on easv 
street." 

As to achievements, he says he " has acquired a few dol- 
lars and some sense." 



GEORGE E. ETTER, 

REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE, 213 WALNUT STREET, HARRISBURG, 
PENN. 

Etter is claimed by 1885 as a member of their class. 
While we do not give him up, we must admit that the col- 
lege authorities decide against us, and accredit Etter to 1885. 

Notwithstanding his alienation from us, he has grown 
portlv and prosperous. His genial and ample presence pro- 
claims " all is well." 

He was married in Philadelphia, March 9, 1894, to Lucy 
S. McGonigal. He has the following children : Benjamin 
Franklin Etter, Jr., December 17, 1894; Katharine Etter, 
May 19, 1896; Eleanor Lindsay Etter, August 16, 1898. 

He has taken some part in politics. He was a candidate for 
School Director for the Fourth Ward, Harrisburg, in Febru- 
ary, 1889, and defeated by good majority, his opponent, who 
had been in the School Board for eighteen years. 

He has been Treasurer of a number of organizations for 
several years, and has been Secretary of the Harrisburg 
Alumni Association for some time. 

It does beat all the way these Harrisburg boys — Boyd, 
Etter and the rest — progress and wax prosperous. 

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Rev. CHARLES A. EVANS, A.B., A.M., M.D., 

JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY. 

After his university course Evans studied theology in the 
Northwestern Theological Seminary of Chicago, coaching 




CHARLES A. EVANS 



the "St. Jo." four-oared crew in the summer to good effect, 
and keeping in touch with college studies. 

His first pastorate was at Holly, Mich., where he was 
ordained and installed in 1886. 

He was called to the Sixth Presbyterian Church of In- 
dianapolis in October, 1888; to the Calvary Presbyterian 

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Church of Rochester, N. Y., in October, 1892; and since 
October, 1897, has been '* pleasantly located on the Pali- 
sades, opposite New York city, as pastor of the First Presby- 
terian Church of West Hoboken, N. J." 

He was married on May 13, 1886, at Rahway, N. J., 
to Miss Lamberdine Louise Borgmeyer, who died on July 
5, 1899. 

Louis Alexander Evans was born April 12, 1890, and 
is *'now nearly fourteen years of age," and his father writes: 
" He is my best friend, dearest chum and severest critic. My 
greatest pleasure and ambition centres in my boy. 

" Louis is at present a student at the Montclair Military 
Academy. I expect to enter him at Princeton in about four 
years as a candidate for foot-ball and other scholastic honors." 

As an author, Evans has published lectures and essays for 
the most part, with magazine articles from time to time — 
*' In the Shadow of the Rock," 1893 ' "The Church as a 
Promoter of Good Government," 1896; "James Russell 
Lowell, Diplomat, Poet, Patriot," 1896; "Lowell's Place 
in English Literature," 1896; " The Yosemite and the Yel- 
lowstone," 1903. These are among his contributions to re- 
cent literature. 

He writes : " Your array of questions bewilders me — ' de- 
grees, titles, offices, honors.' Every man should honor old 
'84 by winning them ; yet, my quest has apparently been in 
another direction, for none of them worth mentioning have 
loomed up within my horizon. 

"It is a satisfaction, however, that many other '84 men 
have won them in abundance, in church and state, in law 
and medicine, and scientific pursuits. 

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*' As to achievements, Stanley White's latest has put us 
all in the shade. 

" In all the years, I have never been separated in spirit 
from dear old Nassau. Whatever honors or distinction may 
come in this direction will be largely due to the training of 
Alma Mater. Count me in for '84's reunion." 

Evans is a member of Princeton Club of New York City, 
Gamma Sigma Society of Jersey City, Kappa Sigma Alumni 
Chapter of New York, Society of the Genesee, New York. 

Dr. ALEXANDER G. FELL, B.S., M.D., 

317 SOUTH RIVER STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. 

*' Dr. Fell is a fine fellow, a physician of standing, and 
was quite active in politics some time ago. A brand-new 
baby, the first in his family, arrived a short time ago, which 
may explain his failure to answer." 

This is the report given by a Wilkes-Barre man when 
no response from Fell had come to headquarters. When the 
brand-new baby could allow him time. Fell answered for 
himself. 

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Med- 
ical School on May 2, 1887, having been elected presi- 
dent of the class of '87, and received an appointment to 
Blockly Hospital, in Philadelphia, and to the Wilkes-Barre 
City Hospital. 

*' In our section of the country," he writes, "hospital 
work is generally on the surgical side, and Wilkes-Barre is 
located so far from any of the great medical centres that one 
must be prepared to do anything from an amputation of the 

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first joint of a finger to any of the organs of the abdomen. 
To be candid, I have enjoyed and still enjoy my work. 

" I have been thrown into politics somewhat, and have 
been initiated to the various degrees, and know how to take 
my medicine without making a bad face. 




ALEXANDER G. FELL 



" I see my classmates but seldom, as I do not believe that 
any live within a radius of a hundred miles from me, but I 
watch the newspapers, and I felt overjoved when I noticed 
that Jack Kennedy escaped from a wreck without serious in- 
jury. 

"A little over two years ago I was married. I can't say 

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that marriage is a failure, but, to the contrary, a great success. 
On the 22nd of January, 1904, we were blessed with a little 
daughter, and now I believe that I shall be forced to surren- 
der to another dictator." 

Fell was married on November 14, 1901, in Scranton, 
Pa., to Miss Rena M. Howe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas B. Howe, and his daughter's name is Elizabeth Cope- 
land Fell. 

Fell was elected to staff of Wilkes-Barre City Hospital in 
1890, president Luzerne County Medical Society in 1901, 
chairman Luzerne County Republican Committee in 1901. 
Member Luzerne County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State 
Medical Society, Westmoreland Club of Wilkes-Barre, Mason, 
Knights Templar K. of P., Medical Club of Philadelphia. 

STANLEY FERGUSON, LL.B., 

LAWYER, S. W. CORNER 4TH AND MAINE STS., CINCINNATI, OHIO. 

Leaving college, Ferguson engaged in the cotton factoring 
and commission business ; later, in manufacturing of patented 
articles. 

He entered the law office of his father, E. A. Ferguson, 
of Cincinnati, and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law 
School in the class of '86. 

He is now practicing law under the firm name of E. A. 
Ferguson. He is also secretary and auditor of the Cincinnati 
Southern Railway. 

He married Miss Mattie A. Lever, of Loveland, Ohio, on 
October 12, 1887. Frank Miller, Alexander Ernst, E. S. 
Leavitt, of '84, and Joe Baldwin, '83, were at the wedding. 

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Two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson — Alex- 
ina, who is now fifteen years old, and Helen, who died in 
1892. Mrs. Ferguson died August lo, 1896, and Ferguson is 
still a widower. 

He is interested in politics, and has been delegate to Dem- 




STANLEY FERGUSON 



ocratic Municipal, County and State Conventions ; is also a 
director of Youne Men's Democratic Club of Cincinnati. 

The other societies of which he is a member are : Knights 
of Pythias and University Club of Cincinnati. 

Reading and theatre-going are his social pleasures and 
leisure occupations. 

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As to habits, " I am not like the Captain of the Pinafore, 
who never used a big, big D." "You think D — m ! I say 
D— m ! ! " (General K. to Dr. McC.) 

Dr. JOSEPH LANE FINLEY, M.D., 

CENTREVILLE, QUEEN ANNe's COUNTY, MARYLAND. 

Left Princeton in '82, and attended the University of 
Maryland and studied medicine. He graduated in '84 as 
M.D., and has been practicing medicine ever since. 

He has lived at Church Hill, Md., all his life until last 
year, when he moved to Centreville. 

On the 8th of January, 1885, he was married to Miss 
Margaret Paterson Groson, the daughter of Judge Groson. 
He has had four children, only one of whom is now living, 
a son, Richard Harrison Finley. 

His last letter says that he " is doing well," and trusts all 
of his classmates are doing the same. 

He has been Health Officer of the County, and is a very 
busy man. 

Dr. J. M. T. FINNEY, A.B., A.M., 

PHYSICIAN, 1300 EUTAW PLACE, BALTIMORE, MD. 

"Your circular letter asking for information concerning 
myself received. I should have answered it earlier, but, as 
usual, my time has been so much taken up with other things 
that I haven't gotten to it. 

In reply I would say that nothing very startling has hap- 
pened to me since graduation. I have led a very busy and 
active life, and, therefore, a very happy one. I have accom- 

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plished nothing very startling, but I hope I have been of 
some service in alleviating the sufferings of those poor unfor- 
tunates who have fallen into my hands. 

My home address is 1300 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Ma- 
ryland. I was married to Miss Mary Elizabeth Gross of 
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on April 20, 1892, and, I am 
glad to say, I have three of the finest boys you ever saw. All 
of them are in training for places on the eleven already, and 
the position of tackle, half back and kicking full back are 
already mortgaged. They are three of the most enthusiastic 
Princeton men I have ever come across. You should hear 
them talk now of what they are going to do to Yale. 

After graduating from Princeton, I entered the Harvard 
Medical School, was knocked out one year by typhoid fever, 
and, after graduation, served as house surgeon in the Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital, Boston, which position I resigned 
to come to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, when 
it opened in 1889, and have been at work here ever since. 

My official title is Associate Professor of Surgery, Johns 
Hopkins University, and Surgeon to out-patients of the Johns 
Hopkins Hospital, I am also surgeon to several of the other 
hospitals in Baltimore, all of which, together with my pri- 
vate work, keeps my nose to the grindstone constantly. 

I have never been honored with any other position, po- 
litical or otherwise, except that I rejoice in the title of Brigade 
Surgeon to the Maryland National Guard, on the staff of a 
good and loyal Princeton man. General Lawrason Riggs, '83. 
We did not see service in Cuba, but we were in camp for 
some weeks, expecting to get there. This position entitles 
me to the rank of '' Colonel" and also allows me to appear 

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Upon State occasions with all sorts of gold lace and brass but- 
tons on my clothes. 

I have been guilty of writing to the medical journals a 
number of articles upon surgical subjects, a complete list of 
which would be too long lor the space allotted me, and, I 
fear, would not interest any but the medical portion of my 
classmates. 

I belong to a number of the social clubs of Baltimore, the 
Maryland, University, and the Country Club, etc., where I 
am always glad to put up the name of any '84 man who 
comes to Baltimore. 

You ask what is my fondest ambition ? I hardly know, 
unless it is to live up to the expectations of my friends, and 
be ot some service in my profession. 

So far as my personal achievements are concerned, I hardly 
feel that I can glory in any of them. The consciousness of 
having done one's best, under whatever circumstances one 
may be placed, affords perhaps the greatest satisfaction. 

I trust that I have changed for the better in many ways 
since graduation. Perhaps the most hopeful indication of 
improvement is in being more charitably disposed toward an- 
other's faults. 

What accomplishments have I ? I am not conscious of 
any that merit special mention. 

So far as my habits, good or bad, are concerned, I feel 
that Mrs. Finney would be a most competent witness. I will 
ask her to make a note on this subject. 

My favorite leisure occupation is going fishing with my 
boys. The social pleasure that I most enjoy is a quiet talk 
with a Princeton man. 

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You ask what is my ideal of perfect contentment ? I 
would say that the life I am at present leading is as near that 
as any that I can frame. 

I have not had the opportunity to see many '84 men. I 
have had the pleasure of seeing more frequently, perhaps, 
than any other Johnson Poe, *'Buck" Blackwell, and George 
Harper. Jack Daves I see only occasionally. All of our class- 
mates are giving good accounts of themselves in this part of 
the country. 

I shall take great pleasure in getting back to our Twen- 
tieth Reunion next year, and shall hope to see a large num- 
ber back." 

How like the modest, unassuming " J'ai " the above letter is. 
Who would suspect that he was one of the most famous and 
successful surgeons of the South. 

We understand also that he and his wife have done a 
great amount of good and charitable work, and have from 
their own resources practically maintained a small hospital 
for the worthy poor. We have tried in vain to get details 
of this and his many other good deeds. 



JOSEPH J. FORGEY. 

PHARMACIST, 938 WEST 43RD STREET, WEST PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

We remember Forgey as a hustling chap, who used to 
room in North Edwards, but who only stayed freshman year. 
Rooming in North Edwards was not, we understand, the rea- 
son for his leaving College, though some of the boys might 
think it sufficient. 

He is married and has one child, Lucile, aged lo years. 

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REV. JOHN N. FORMAN, A.B., A.M., 

MISSIONARY, ETAH, UNITED PROVINCES, INDIA. 

John Newton Fornian was born in India, his father be- 
ing a missionary there at the time of his birth. He was fa- 
miliar with the Hindustani language in his childhood, and 
used it until his fourteenth year, a circumstance which con- 
tributed greatly to his value as a missionary to India, the call- 
ing he very naturally chose for himself. 

He spent two years in Princeton Theological Seminary 
to prepare for the ministry, and one year with Mr. Robert P. 
Wilder in carrying forward the Student Volunteer Movement 
among college men in America. (Mr. Robert Speer says that 
everywhere the pervasive influence of his strong personality 
left a powerful impression upon the colleges visited by 
him.) 

He spoke in behalf of this movement in some of the col- 
leges of England, Scotland, and Ireland on his way out to In- 
dia, in 1888. His early knowledge of the language made it 
possible for him to begin work immediately, although he kept 
up a constant study of both Hindustani and Hindi for several 
years, thus gaining what he calls *'some freedom of use of the 
Hindustani language " (by others an " exceptional command 
of the vernacular" ). 

He tried the experiment of giving up his rooms in the 
Mission Compound and living amongst the people, renting a 
small room in one city and then in another. His object was 
to get in as close contact as possible with the people. It 
meant much hardship and he found it did not give him any 
advantage in dealing with the people, but rather made them 
suspicious of his motives ; so after a thorough trial he gave it 

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up, but the experience thus gained has been of value to him 
ever since. 

Most ot his time in India has been given to preaching 
throughout hundreds of towns and villages, in the great melas 
or religious gatherings for bathing in the sacred rivers, at 
noted shrines where at set times crowds of Hindoo assemble 
and also in the bazars of Ferrukhabad. 

A day in Forman's work is somewhat as follows : At 7.30 
A. M. he starts out preaching, which he continues until 1 1.30. 
In the afternoon he preaches in the bazar, and in the even- 
ing he conducts services in some village near by. In this way 
many hundreds come within his influence in a single day. 

Forman was the college missionary for some time. He 
was stationed first at Fategahr. In 1902 he came to America 
on a furlough, bringing his only child back here to be edu- 
cated. Since his return to India he has been in charge of the 
work in Etah, where he and his wife have been the only 
Foreign Missionaries in. a district of 850,000 people. This 
means work in 75 villages, an oversight of about 25 schools 
with I 5 teachers and 5 preachers on his staff. Among these 
schools is a boys' Boarding School, having about 60 boys, a 
training school for teachers, and a small boarding school for 
girls. 

In October Mr. Forman is to leave this field to become 
Professor of Theology in the Theological Seminary at Saha- 
ranpur. On September 30, 1890, Forman was married to 
Miss E. M. Foote, of Lowville, New York. They were mar- 
ried at Landow in the Himalaya Mountains. They have one 
daughter, Florence Dorothea, now eleven years old. In answer 
to the class list of questions, he says : *' My favorite leisure 

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occupation is reading papers; our social lite is largely made 
up of limitations. I envy those of you who can join in the 
great reunion planned for '84. I do hope you can get a large 
crowd and have a grand time. One of my ideals of perfect 
contentment is to meet '84 men in June, 1904; but I find 
this impossible, because of continents and oceans in the way, 
whether I go by the Western or Far-Eastern route. So please 
excuse absence and accept my hearty well wishes." 

When recently in this country arranging for the educa- 
tion of his daughter, Forman favored us with a call. It was 
a delight to us to grasp his hand and get his hearty greeting. 
We could get for him but little about his part in the won- 
derful work in India. The Presbyterian board of Foreign Mis- 
sions has issued a pamphlet about it entitled "The Great 
Awakening at Etah." If you want to feel proud of a class- 
mate, drop in and ask the Board what they think and know 
about Forman, and what he has accomplished. 



GILBERT RODMAN FOX, 

LAWYER, 320 DE KALB STREET, NORRISTOWN, PA., AND 8oO PENN 
SQUARE BUILDING, OPPOSITE CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

In 1885 Fox had been admitted to the bar and was prac- 
ticing law in Norristown, Pa., under the firm name of G. R. 
Fox & Son. He is at present one of the law firm of Lar- 
zelere, Gibson & Fox, with offices in Norristown and Phila- 
delphia. 

He was married Mav 11, 1886, at Norristown, to Miss 
Rebekah Coleman, daughter of George F. and Josephine A. 
Coleman. Several classmates were present at the wedding. 

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He has live children — George Coleman, Josephine, Mildred, 
John Wister, Catherine. 

He confesses that one of the two commonest ills of life 
has overtaken him, i, e., baldness ; but the " too, too-soUd 




GILBERT RODMAN FOX 



flesh " of which some others make mention is not compatible 
with " cricket," " dancing," '* horseback riding and shoot- 
ing," which are his leisure occupations and social pleasures. 
He is a member of the following clubs : Union Cricket 
Club, Athletic Club Schuylkill Navy, Princeton Clubs of 
Philadelphia and New York, Art Club of Philadelphia, and 
local clubs. 

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GEOP.GE B. FRENCH, 

UNIVERSITY CLUB, NEW YORK CITY. 

We have not succeeded in getting any response from 
French, and so we do not state these facts regarding him 
authoritatively, 

After skirmishing around, inquiring here and there, we 
have been told that in 1887 he was married to Miss Lesher, 
daughter of Arthur L. Lesher. We believe he has one 
daughter. 

If any of our author members wants data for a good, 
breezy, stirring story of adventure, he need not draw on his 
imagination. If he can only have a heart-to-heart talk with 
French and get him to unbosom himself of the facts of his 
career, material plenty, better than any fiction, will be 
found. 

French sought to find his fortune among the mines of 
Colorado. He touched about every side of that business, in- 
cluding the bottom and the top. He concluded not to pursue 
it further, and went into railroading. For a while he was 
with the St. Paul Road, and later was with the Santa Fe. 
After a while he turned up in Chicago and tried life as a 
wheat broker. He showed great skill in this business, and 
soon drew about himself some very influential customers. 
Among these was Joseph Leiter. They got their heads to- 
gether and devised and engineered the great corner in wheat, 
French acting as Leiter's broker. Of the details of that tre- 
mendous enterprise all the world knows — of the magnificent 
fortune which was made and lost again. 

Later French drifted to Boston, and became the resi- 
dent director of the Bankers' Electric Protective Company. 

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This position he held until recently at a very comfortable 
compensation. 

On November 25, 1897, ^^^ following appeared in one 
of the daily papers : 

*' George B. French is a prominent wheat merchant in 
Chicago. During the recent rise in the wheat market he 
represented the heaviest dealers on the Board and practically 
controlled the situation for several days." 



HENRY B. GAYLEY, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER. 51 WALL STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

Having graduated from Columbia Law School in 1886, 
Gayley took up the practice of the law in New York City, 
doing a general practice. 

A few years later he joined with Joseph D. Baucus, '86, 
and Matthew C. Fleming, '86, and made up the firm of 
Gayley, Baucus & Fleming. A year or two later Baucus 
withdrew, and Gayley & Fleming still continue under that 
name at the above address. 

In April, 1900, at St. Thomas's Church, New York Citv, 
he was naarried to Miss Estelle Cauda, daughter of Charles 
J. Canda, of New York City. Tod and several other '84 
men assisted at the ceremony. 

They have two children, Henry Clifford, aged 3 years, 
and Madeleine Estelle, aged i}^ years. 

He is a member of the Princeton Club of New York, of 
the Ardsley Club, and of the St= Andrew's Society. He is 
very fond of golf, and if you follow the records of the matches 

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at Ardsley, you will generally find Gayley's name near the 
top of the list of winners. 

He is faithful, too, in his allegiance to 84, and if there 
is any function in which our class figures, Gayley is generally 
on hand. 

GEORGE McCLELLAN H. GOOD, M.E., 

ENGINEER OF MINES. OSCEOLA MILLS, PA. 

Good left college in Freshman year, and later went to 
Columbia University, New York, to study mining engineer- 
ing. He graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 
1886 with the degree of Mining Engineer. This profession 
he has followed ever since. He is now located at Osceola 
Mills, Pa. 

He was married to Alice M. Bubb, and they have two 
children, Sarah Burrows, born August 17, 1898, and Eliza- 
beth Houtz, born April 24, 1904. 

He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, and of the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

WILLIAM C. GOODELL, M.D., 

PHYSICIAN, I418 SPRUCE STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

Left college in Freshman year. Returning to Philadel- 
phia he loafed a year and then entered the University of 
Pennsylvania Medical Department, and graduated in 1885. 
We are told he is a Gynecologist of high reputation — one of 
the best authorities on his subject in Pennsylvania. He has 
held the following positions : Gynecologist to University of 

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Pennsylvania, Surgeon in University of Pennsylvania Dispen- 
sary, Obstetrician to Philadelphia Maternity Hospital, Gyne- 
cologist to St. Clements Hospital and Dispensary. 

ALVAH RUCKMAN GRIER, 

MOUNTAIN SEMINARY, BIRMINGHAM, PA. 

We had almost lost track of Grier. Finally a notice 
reached him. Then he wrote : 

" When a fellow is advertised for, it's about time to make 
himself known — at least, that he is in the land of the living 
and has not disgraced Old Nassau and his classmates of 1884. 
My college career was such a short one, as I left for the 
Christmas vacation, and did not return for some years. Thus 
I lost track of the fellows even before I knew them all. Did 
not return to reunion as I felt I would be a stranger if not 
in a strange land. 

" I have determined to go back in 1904, and see if I can- 
not get in touch with the boys of 1884. I'm getting my 
boy ready to go about 1920, so must start in to learn new 
tricks so I can keep up with the chap. I will be a sort of 
an * old one ' by that time, but just now as young as I was 
twenty years ago." 

It's necessary to begin at this date and trace Grier's biog- 
raphy as previous records have been scanty. These are the 
ascertained steps in his career : Six months law, lumber two 
years, railroad two years, school manager twelve years, two 
years secretary and treasurer of an electric railroad, and pres- 
ident of the Tyrone Electric Light Co, He has been coun- 
cilman, and anti-machine state delegate, and made " good 

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roads " speeches. His present address is Mountain Seminary, 
Birmingham, Penn. This is the college preparatory school 
for girls of which Grier is at present manager as well as be- 
ing President of the Tyrone Home Electric Light and Steam 




ALVAH RUCKMAX GRIER 



Heating Company. On October 16, 1900, he was married 
to Miss Mary Virginia Campbell at Altoona, Pa. Colonel 
Reynolds, of 1884, was at the wedding. Alvah Ruckman 
Grier, Jr., was born in 1902, and the achievement of the past 
twenty years which has given Grier the most satisfaction he 
declares ''to be his boy." Grier says that he is "not a 
joiner," but is a member of the Altoona Golf Club and Ty- 

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rone Club just the same. He confesses to the rare accom- 
plishment of "looking pleasant when I feel bad." His favo- 
rite leisure occupations make him akin to the "great Izaak," 
fishing for bass and horse-back riding, and his ideals are 
*' enough money to travel and to keep the best horses in the 
county when at home." 

J. FRANKLIN GULICK, A.B., 

PRESENT OCCUPATION AND ADDRESS UNKNOWN. 

Frank Gulick has not been heard from for some time. 
For a while he was engaged in farming near Kingston, N. J. 
Later he took a farm near Lawrenceville, N. J. A letter ad- 
dressed to one M. H. Gulick at Lawrenceville, brought the 
response : 

" J. Franklin Gulick is in New York City. I do not know 
where. A letter addressed to him, General Delivery Post 
Office, New York City, may reach him." 

But it did not. It came back unclaimed. 

J. HENRY GULICK, A.B., 

REAL ESTATE, I505 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 

Gulick was actively connected with Princeton University 
for a year after graduation as he took a Post Graduate course 
in Chemistry under Professor Cornwall with Comparative 
Anatomy and Histology as by-plays. He continued, how- 
ever, to be in touch with Princeton Hfe incidentally for some 
three years longer, for he owned a farm two miles out of town, 
where he kept bachelor's hall until the fall of 1888. 

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than one's purse, he moved to Washington, D. C, where he 
went into the real estate business. 

He was married in the spring of i 896, and has two children, 
both girls, 

WILLIAM H. GULICK, B.S., 

IRON AND STEEL CONTRACTOR. WILLIAM H. GULICK & CO., PHOENIX- 
VILLE, PA. 

The ''short and simple annals" of W. H. Gulick are as 
follows: Heard of in 1887 as engaged in Phoenixville Iron 
Works and doing well. These are the steps in his business 
career : Clerk, Shop Foreman, Shop Inspector, W. H. Gu- 
lick & Co. 

He was married on February 3, 1893, to Miss C. Eliza- 
beth Dismouth, and has one daughter, Helen. 

He disclaims all titles, honors, public offices, habits, ideals, 
ambitions and clubs. 

We are sorry not to have more to record of Gulick, be- 
cause we have heard in a general way that he has done very 
well on both the technical and financial side of his business. 
We have heard of occasional large contracts being executed 
with ability. All appeals, however, for definite information 
to him, to his brother and to his father, have brought no re- 
sponse, so we can only speak in general terms as above. 

CHARLES S. HAMILTON, A.B., A.M., M.D., 

PHYSICIAN, NORTH FOURTH STREET, COLUMBUS, OHIO 

Hamilton studied medicine in his father's office, and in 
Columbus Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, graduating 
in 1887. 

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Please give a Complete Record since Graduation. 

1. Present business address .>/.?^r!''V^'^?::^ . .'^ Cj^-^<^*-*.-'^»«-r ^ 

Name of firm or company.. ^^-^-'^...~^..SY^X?!^4^[^^f<.^^ ff y 

Your residence ^ '^ J.-^'^^'T''^^ «. 

2. If married, give date and place iC»?.(*« .%r.(^*-' l O T^Q. 

Name of wife V^ «*!.*»*. ....'^rrj^'^tA^ _ 

Name of her parents ./r^^..'«H-*...Vr^,...r''r1^^ ^.•«*y.y'yf!MTf»««.«r<^^t^ 

Any classmates present at wedding _ ... -—: ~>^ 

Name and ages of any children "...." -. ." rrrrrrr^T.. _ 

3 Give the various steps in your business or professional career. 

...<^>r.«0*.<*?^</...£H. ?h* )ji*f«?vyr ^'^V <^7- w^At y^frf^^ i^.t^ J^^ 

...U* /V«^. 7**5?t^. . Ca* .^^)'^..*?>t*r«>^. .M>V7r7.C»..... _ .S?.*^:-!!?^ /l^??i»"^«-*--x. 

4. flease give details regarding followingf: — ^ 

Any degrees, titles or honors you have received 



Any office or position, public, semi-public, political, military or commercial you 

have filled , ?r*:f<^HH^O «^<^r»^«^^ >^^t- , 

^Clr€-^^ Vk^JV**^ Ctf-t*^^, OJX::.-!-^ ^^-r-j-^"^ *^tS CAU>1*^ 

r y^Jr^ ^^p^^r-*'^^^ 

5. Have any of your writings been printed or published. Give complete list with date 

. ..V:^.(?^*^. .../ib-.te*. P^ <r«ru^!(iin/!^^ * ^y^oM '^»reryr' /^ . 

tAt/VVnJir\ •VwM-Kt^ XA/^.e>J^^ . 

CH.JlRLES s. ha.milto.v 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 
6. Of what societies, clubs, Boards or organizations of any kind have you been a member 

^JLu/Jir (V^^«Av\ tnivt '/r:%AX^c^y^e^:^jr^^ 



7. If you are not married, what apologies have you to offer, . 
\yTlr*t o^ <AnL<pCi 



8. What is your fondest ambition 7^?V^<*-^-Mry'v*<Lr....^^t.fr:f^»^ <^— r|J^ 

e-t^- £ otrxX- <5^>t^;^5::•:I^r^:fr:^?^^^!~Sr: 

9. What personal achievement in the past twenty years has given you the most satis- 

faction .._ " 



10. In what ways do you think you have changed since graduation.. 



0^*^i*i^r~^ <*^-w«) 



II. What accomplishments have you. 



12. Have you any fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they .C..<^^ *S-^*rO. 

*-* If*^ p P^rU^i^rMJU^r^S. ^^nff.'^'^/^^rfr^^lf, 



13. What is your favorite leisure occupatioa..„ ^r^O^(rV:>*f«-..<»:'V'V*^.. 

14. What social pleasure do you most enjoy .^Jhv**r**r.*^»/r>. — 



15., What is your ideal of perfect contentment y..».....^.....???^.^:*t*!r*?^ ^/<VJH^-v 



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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

He spent 1888 in special studies at the College of Phy- 
sicians, and Surgeons in New York City, and has practised 
ever since in Columbus, Ohio, with the exception of live months 
in Germany in 1898, and is now one of the hrm of W. D. 
& C. S. Hamilton. 




CHARLES S. HAMILTON 



Dr. Hamilton was Professor of Principles of Surgery in 
Starling Medical College, and attending surgeon to Children's 
and Mt. Carmel Hospitals. He has also been a contributor 
to current medical literature. He was married on December 
28, 1893, ^^ ^i^^ Marion Neil, but is now a widower. He 
is a member of the following clubs : Columbus Club, Arling- 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

ton Country Club, Columbus Golf Club, Columbus Automo- 
bile Club. 

We are told that Hamilton stands very high in surgery, 
and his services are in great demand throughout central Ohio, 
where he and his father have a very large practice. 

RICHARD J. HAMILTON, 

EDITOR, HAGERSTOWN, MD. 

D.D. would be an appropriate degree to put after Ham- 
ilton's name — " Dithyramb Dick," for that is the title which 
he has earned and which has been given to him in the liter- 
ary world. Read the New York '' Sun " on " Dithyramb Dick 
of Pilduzer Park." Leaving college, i 88 i, Hamilton went into 
journalism and soon thereafter in connection with Joseph 
Bristow he became interested in " The Daily Mail," an even- 
ing newspaper, consisting of four pages, issued each evening. 
Hamilton is now the editor. Being the son of Hon. William T. 
Hamilton, Governor of the State of Maryland, and being 
abundantly provided with this world's goods Hamilton never 
was hampered with practical questions of ways and means and 
he therefore was enabled to develop on the side of the ideal 
and poetic. When fancy-free Dick shines at his best. Look 
up some of his poems and articles in poetry and prose, and you 
will see the Dithyrambic style highly developed. A confrere 
writes thus of him : '* Mr. Hamilton is noted for a style pe- 
culiarly his own and some of his articles are often quoted in the 
city papers with humorous remarks. His flights into the poetic 
realm have procured for him the title of * Dithyramb Dick.' 
The New York 'Sun' last year gave the 'Mail' editor 

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Please give a Complete Record since Graduation. 







1. Present business address rr J... J.<Z " . Y r^ \ 

Name of firm or company 

Your residence 

2. If married, give date and place 

Name of wife 

Name of her parents I ^A^A4^Xr^r^'^4^ 

Any classmates present at wedding 
Name and ages of any children 



\AA\tuL^ Ayt^(LA^ 



6(/^U-^^62^</^^<i^^ 



3. Give the various steps in your business or professional career. 



"^O-Ad^ ^ ^:j^^^^ O^"^^-?^ 



Please give details regarding following : — 

Any degrees, titles or honors you have received.. 




Any office or position, public, semi-public, political, military or commercial yoil 
have filled 



5. Have any of your writings been printed or published. Give complete list with date 

RICHARD J. H.AMILTON °7 




THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 
6. Of what societies, clubs, Boards or organizations of any kind have you been a member 




7. If you are not married, what apologies have you to offer.. 




8. What is your fondest ambition. 



9. What personal achievement in the past twenty years has given you the most satis- 
faction 



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ID. In what ways do you think you have changed since graduation. 




11. What accomplishments have you 

<^ 

12. Have you any fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they.. 



:(^-^:fTi<^ 



13. What is your favorite leisure occupation.. 

14. What social pleasure do you most enjoy.. 



^^^^^^^~^^^^ 



15. What is your ideal of perfect contentment. 



THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

quite a publicity in copying and commenting on his effusions. 
He is quite independent of any dictionary for a vocabulary, 
coining words with great ease as he writes and as for orthog- 
raphy and syntax he treats them and their rules with a con- 
tempt only second to his disregard of such trivial and useless 
things as conjunctions and prepositions. Sometimes he is not 
so completely swayed by the poetic force, but then he is not 
at his best." 

Hamilton has not had time to consider such mundane in- 
stitutions as marriage. He lives with his mother, sisters and 
brother at the family homestead, "Oak Hall," one of the most 
beautiful county seats in Maryland. In politics he is described 
as a '* red-hot Democrat." Note the succinct way in which 
" Dick " answers some of our personal questions. 

He is out for Hagerstown too — booming it; getting every- 
thing for it that is coming. 

JOHN MAYNARD HARLAN, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, MARqUETTE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL. 

It seems "like carrying coals to New Castle," to be tell- 
ing Harlan's classmates about him, for all have read with in- 
terest the many accounts of him in the newspapers. But this 
is a record of our class. We are proud of John. He has 
done many and noble things, and we of 1884 want them 
noted to adorn our History. 

He studied law in Chicago, and became a member of the 
firm of Smith & Pence. Later he formed the firm of Har- 
lan & Bates, which is the present name. 

Harlan's name is a household word in Chicago politics, 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

and a terror to the advocates of ring rule. In 1896 he was 
elected an Alderman, and in 1 897 he made his famous run for 
Mayor on an independent ticket, with no established organi- 
zation behind him. His opponents were the invincible Carter 
Harrison, Democrat, and Judge Nathaniel Sears, Republican. 
In fact, Harlan was his own party and his own organization. 
Here is his platform : 

With due deference I submit co the people the following princi- 
ples, to which I solemnly pledge myself: 
I. Loyalty to my oath of office. 
1. Enforcement of law with justice to all and partiality to none. 

3. Extension of the merit system in the public service. 

4. An honest and economical administration of the city's affairs. 

5. Proper compensation to the city for franchises, the use of pub- 
lic property, and special privileges. 

6. Cordial co-operation with the Criminal Court and its officers in 
detecting and punishing corruptionists. Banishment of politics from 
the police force. 

7. Thorough reform in the matter of special assessment abuses. 

8. Faithfulness to the people under all conditions and in all emer- 
gencies. No pledges to individual parties or machines. 

9. A cabinet composed of the strongest and best men that can be 
induced to serve the public, thus insuring wise counsel and conserva- 
tive action. 

Upon this platform, if the people so will, I shall be the next mayor 
of Chicago, and when elected I shall, with God's help, give this city 
a government of the people and for the people — a government in 
which corruption can have no place. 

It is said that in this election Harlan could have had the 
support of the Republican machine if he would have given 
certain pledges which he refused to do. The Chicago pa- 
pers said of the election : '' The feature of the election was 

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the Strength shown by Harlan. He ran second to Harrison, 
and, akhough an independent with no organization behind 
him, he obtained more votes than the regular Republican can- 
didate, Judge Nathaniel Sears." 




JOHN MAYNARD HARLAN 



The New York " Sun " remarked after the battle : " Mr. 
Harlan is an impetuous, but rather an indiscreet reformer, 
but he deserved to win." 

John has been very successful in his profession. He won 
great fame by his case against the street railways of Chicago, 
whereby he compelled them to furnish a statement of their 
earnings to the City Council. 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

He has been prominent in the organization and manage- 
ment of the Princeton Club of Chicago, and is a member of 
the following other clubs : University Club, Chicago Club, 
Chicago Athletic Club, Hamilton Club, Marquette Club, 
Chicago Golf Club at Wheaton, Saddle and Cycle Club. 

He was married October 21, 1890, to Elizabeth Palmer 
Flagg, daughter of Ethan Flagg. This was the occasion for 
quite an 1884 class meeting. There were present George P. 
Butler, David M. Look, Henry N. Paul, R. K. Prentice, and 
several others. 

He has three children, Elizabeth Palmer, aged i i ; John 
Marshall, aged 4 ; and Janet, aged 8 months. 

GEORGE M. HARPER, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., 

PROFESSOR, 36 MERCER STREET, PRINCETON, N. J. 

Harper occupies a very important place in the feelings 
of his classmates. He is now our only representative on the 
Princeton faculty. We all rejoice to have this link binding 
us closer to our Alma Mater. One does not feel quite so lone- 
some in going back to the old college — knowing we have a 
comrade with an hospitable greeting awaiting us there. 

We also glory in the progress Harper has made and the 
fame that has come to him in being established in so exalted a 
place in the literary world. It is a magnificent thing to write 
of any man that he set for himself an exalted goal and then 
made everything tend toward it and finally won. 

Harper has followed the course he mapped out consist- 
ently. Leaving college he became a reporter on the N. Y. 
*' Tribune." In 1885 he went abroad and spent a semester in 

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Please give a Complete Record since Graduation. 



I. Present business address. 



X I 



^ 



/^Ik^:^^^^ 

Name of firm or company /<4:<ir5t^,tf<t=^Su«....:i!^^^'l^r:5Cf^^ 

Your residence...^^.....<!^i^^^4?r!<W£4J^4.r.<^.~......... 

^ |2. If married, give date and place...>^f?!r:<S^i< .7^..^ iZJf....J^A,<'^.i*f.r/5i'f:s._ 

' Name of wife.--^!-^^!£(<L..!I^^^M^^ 

Name of her parents..^«£«.../^&<>;^^ 

Any classmates present at wedding ,^1^<2,. , _ 

Name and ages of any c\i\\&^&njJf<l^oMr<J^^^ 



3. Give the various steps in your business or professional career. 






X/i^u».,tt< 



^ ' C'"'^' ''■ '^ tc***^ " 



4. Please give details regarding following :- 

Any degrees, titles or honors you have received.. 






£lM. 



Any office or position, public, semi-public, political, military or commercial you 
have iA\^d..A^>M-H^*rfJ^..A.M^ 

5. Have any of your writings been printed or published. Give complete list with date 



GEORGE M. HARPER 



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6. Of "what societies, clubs, Boards or organizations of any kind have you been a member 

*^Ur^..i^^^^^-^^kr*t^ 

7. If you are not married, what apologies have you to offer 



8. What is your fondest ambition >l^ 04^ /A^r^-^r^rA^G^ G £SLc 

iMlit-.L^^-.J^l^^^ - - - 

9. What personal achievement in the past twenty years has giveu you the most satis- 

faction 

10. In what ways ao you think you have changed since graduation / JAd-.u^ '/ i^^ ' ^yf -.C/^ 



II. What accomplishments have you .^^^<-«>. / » < *^ ^ j^ ^'^-i^-jj cf ^- t" /ft'^^<' ^ ^-^ '" f \ _^ 



12. Have you any fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they 

^L^^-*^ AtLAi C^:<^U^ ^a^^t-y. M^ ..J^..^. Q^r--*^^. /^^ 



13. What is your favorite leisure occupation /P^^^r^'*^.u£t A4J-Ci-^Ul2^j^^A^ 

14. What social pleasure do you most enjoy »^4i,^^''<rr'^*rr^..MHA4iii..^^ 

i.S. What is your ideal of perfect contentment. 4^'iH^^.2S«<<<^<.-f»^..^^ 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

Study at Gottingen and two at Berlin. 1887 was devoted to 
travel in Italy and England, and then returning to America he 
became Second Assistant Editor of Scribner's Magazine. This 
office he held until 1889, when ^^ was appointed Instructor 




GEORGE M. HARPER 



in French at Princeton. He then went abroad for study in 
France and Italy to perfect him in his department and in i 891 
was made Assistant Professor of French and in 1893 he also 
became Instructor in Romance languages and in 1895 was 
appointed Woodhull Professor of Romance languages. In 
1900 he succeeded Dr. James O. Murray as Professor of 
Belles Lettres and English, which chair he still occupies. 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

During all this time Harper's pen has not been idle. He 
is the author of the following: 

" The Legend of the Holy Grail," 1891; ''Masters of 
French Literature," 1901. 

He has also written numerous articles in the Atlantic, 
Scribner's, Book Buyer, and Warner's "Library of the World's 
Best Literature." He translated part of Rein's "Japan" (from 
the German), 1888. Editor of" Contes de Balzac," 1893 ; 
" Hernani," i 894; " La Pierre de Tuche," i 897, and "Sainte- 
Beuve," 1897. 

Harper brought down about his head a storm of criticism 
by his positive comment, " There is scarcely a man in French 
fiction, let alone a gentleman," but his reviewers have yet to 
shake his position. The " Times " in its book review finally 
summed up the controversy by concluding that Harper's con- 
clusions were admirable and discriminating. " It is as wise 
and witty as anything since W. C. Brownell's 'French 
Traits.' " 

Latterly Harper has been engaged as one of the Associate 
Editors of "Modern Eloquence," a ten volume "library of fa- 
mous speeches," etc., with Hon. Thomas B. Reed as Editor in 
Chief. 

A contemporary has given us the following commentary 
on Harper's literary achievements : 

" It is not so much in an advisory and editorial literary ca- 
pacity, that Harper shines, but as a 'maker' of literature. His 
critical and his creative work are marked by the maturing and 
mellowing of the literary qualities which his classmates recall 
as one of his characteristics in the old days of class-room. 
Hall contests, and Lit. editing. His excursions into various 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

fields and study of several languages have ripened and ex- 
panded his constructive talents. He loves the written and the 
spoken Word, the Book, the Idea. Prose, Poetry, Play 
pleases his soul always. And the result is a wide knowledge, 
a large view of literature, and a training which have already 
produced admirable work and promise greater things, espec- 
ially from that land of his first and last love : English litera- 
ture. It isn't too much to say that Harper by his position and 
his production will give us, perhaps, in Dante-interpretation, per- 
haps. in pre-Shakesperian Drama, or yet again in early Eight- 
eenth Century Englishdom, beautiful and perfected work to 
be added to his French critiques. 'Cos why? Among other rea- 
sons, because he has not only comparative view-points and per- 
sonal ideas, but s-t-y-1-e. He writes mellifluous English. He 
turns a corner without striking an angle. He rounds and 
balances phraseology. And that's why Frederic Harrison 
and Dowden, among others, have so amply praised his liter- 
ature, and why the American public will yet think Prince- 
ton as good an exponent as any other famed centre, of the 
power and the polished purity of the English tongue, and of 
American literary culture." 

Harper sends the following message to his classmates: 

" March i6, 1903. 

"Dear Classmates: 

" In writing a letter of this kind, a man feels tempted to 
enlarge upon the joys of hearth and home, which after all fill 
a larger place in his life than public activity, but I am afraid 
the class would think my rhapsodies inappropriate. So I 
shall merely say that when I am tired of teaching students 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

how to write, I seek relaxation sometimes in teaching my 
little daughter to read, to know the birds and flowers and 
stars, and to love good music. My boy is being carefully 
coached to give young George Finney a close rub for the po- 
sition of quarterback in about lilteen years. Before leaving 
the fireside, I wish to remark that some of my happiest hours 
have been spent around it with old classmates — McMahon 
most frequently, J'ai Finney too, and once John Murray and 
once Johnson, not to mention other more regular visitors to 
Princeton. 

" In my professional life I have made two important 
changes — from journalism to teaching, and from the Romance 
languages to English. It is to me a serious thought, of 
mingled sadness and satisfaction, that I now occupy the chair 
formerly filled by my beloved friend. Dr. Murray. As 
head of the French department for eleven years, I be- 
lieve I helped to make that subject respected and hard 
to pass. One of my chief delights, however, has been to 
read Dante with small classes of choice men. I am pleased 
to find that, whatever the causes mav be, a very large propor- 
tion of my Dante students are leading scholarly lives as teach- 
ers, authors, librarians, or ministers. My hope for Princeton 
is that it may be the hardest university in the land to enter 
and remain in, and the pleasantest for real scholars. I wish we 
had more poor men here, men prepared in the free public 
schools. "Yours sincerely, 

*' Geo. M. Harper." 

If you would see again your old classmate acting under 
the old forces which dominated him in our college days. 



THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

you should have seen Harper '* personally conducting " a base 
ball match between the married and single members of the 
faculty. There was exemplified the "strenuous life." If you 
would know Harper, the man, you may make your estimate 
from these facts.: 

On May 9, 1895, he was married at Princeton, N. J., 
to Belle Dunton Westcott, daughter of John Howell and 
Mary Dunton Westcott. He has two children, Isabel Westcott, 
born December i, i 896, and George McLean, born September 
19,1899. Heis,or has been President of the Princeton Branch 
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He 
is a member of the Modern Language Association of America. 
He hopes " to see Princeton realize to the full her splendid 
opportunities." He loves to ride horseback and to travel at 
home and abroad and his fond social pleasure is " having three 
or four undergraduates tuck their legs under my dinner table 
and free their minds on things in general." 



EDWARD W. HARRIS, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER. PRYOR AND HARRIS, 68 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

Harris studied law at Columbia, and graduated in 1886. 
Commenced practice of law in the office of Edward F. Brown, 
No. 10 Wall Street. Later he was in partnership with his 
brother Tracy, at 45 Cedar Street, and later still was a part- 
ner of Judge Roger A. Pryor under the firm name of Pryor, 
Mellis, & Harris. He is now practising at No. 68 William 
Street, New York City. His firm is Pryor & Harris. In 
1889 he was traveling in Europe. 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

His history is a positive one in most respects, negative only 
in the matter of wife and children. 

He is a positive force in politics. An active Republican 
working for the good of the city and not for his own ends. 




EDWARD W. HARRIS 



He is a believer in, and a worker for, clean politics and clean 
methods. In this behalf he has contributed largely of his 
time and money. He believes in interesting in politics the 
best men, and especially college men. He recently headed a 
Committee of the New York Republican Club, to tender a 
reception to Princeton men. 

We men of 1884 'Tiay be very thankful that Harris is 



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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

spared to us, for it was by a very narrow margin that he es- 
caped with his life. He had been playing golf at the Ards- 
ley Club, and was standing at the New York Central Rail- 
road station platform, waiting for the local train to take him 
to New York. His bag of clubs was slung over his shoulder, 
and he was talking with some friends when an express train, 
behind-time, came rushing through, and struck the project- 
ing end of Harris's golf bag. He was hurled high in the air 
and some distance over a fence. It is simply marvelous that 
every bone in his body was not broken. For several days he 
lay unconscious between life and death, but finally recovered. 

Harris has always been a loyal 1884 man. He made the 
presentation speech of the Class Cup, and responded elo- 
quently to the toast of " The Class of i 884," at the Reunion 
in 1889. 

He is a member of the following clubs: University, 
Racquet and Tennis, Princeton, Union League, Republican. 

JOB E. HEDGES, 

LAWYER, 141 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. 

Job tells his own story in brief in the form of answers to 
the regulation questions, and we reproduce his answers in fac- 
simile herewith, but it would never do to let Job go by with 
this notice alone, and as we have been unable to coax a let- 
ter out of him, we take upon ourselves the duty and pleasure 
of presenting some of his achievements. Job was admitted 
to the New York Bar in 1886, and has been carrying on a 
general law-practice since that time. For a number of years 
he was in partnership with Erdman, but he is now " alone, 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

but not unobserved." He is, in fact, one of the most observed 
men in New York, and for reasons that reflect credit upon 
himself, and indirectly upon the class that has the honor to 
include him in its membership. Job has often joked about 
himself on public occasions as a hard-working representative 




JOB E. HEDGES 



of the minority party in New York politics, and the fact that 
he has been identified prominently with the cause of the po- 
litical ** under-dog " sheds all the more glory on his rather dis- 
tinguished achievements. At a recent dinner of the Hotel 
Association of New York City, Mr. George H. Daniels, Gen- 
eral Passenger Agent of the New York Central, paid his 
compliments to Job after the following fashion : 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 





Please give a G)mplete Record since Graduation. 



I. Present business address.. J.^.. J..... Jll.^k-drtbrr^Uj:^ iM^VC 

Name of firm or company -vto;:idJ:r?::^r?sn _ 

Your residence..:rt..7rTrd: 3l.ii^^ C^ 

" place .}\A4:-...^y\^frrrriXjrU:^^^ _ 



2. If married, give date and 

Name of wife 

Name of her parents , 

Any classmates present at wedding 
Name and ages of any children 



i 



3. Give the various steps in your business or professional career, 

?">:^'^-^^....(?-s^^ 

4. Please give details regarding following : — 
Any degrees, titles or honors you have received ^-4r'*-~S.r .yrr^r^rSr^:f■f^^ > [00^ 

...^..L^^ _ 

Any office or position, public, semi-public, political, military or commercial you 
have filled ^^<rf*<feL^ ^^/l^.^ C^. 1 "^^^ J^^*^^. 

5 Have any of your writings been printed or published. Give complete list with date 
^... 

JOB E. HEDGES 





THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 
6. Of what societies, clubs, Boards or organizations of any kind have you been a member 



7y, If you are not married, what apologies have you to offer 

8. What is your fondest amhh\on.J'k^.^..Sd4j^^ 

9. What personal achievement in the past twenty years has given you the most satis- 

faction ..^^..>rf4^ (^Vr^-'^j*:/^??^:*:*"^. -r^Ar.. f *: "r K • • ■' A >CM-«>-? .*^^^ Oc^y - 



10. In what ways do you think you have changed since graduation . 



II. What accompH.shnients have you...(^'VV^ ,}^.. 



ompH.sh 

.Oou, .'^ 

12. Have you any fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they 



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12. Have 

9^.. '£ai>c 1^ £ j^^-^-^...v. ... *^ .t^.. 



i-^. What is your favorite leisure occupation (O'^?^:'^ t^VV M . .".r 

I4y What social pleasure do you most enjoy...((.A^. 




-ejLxJl .S-r':T'*-rf'^^.. 



15. What is your ideal of perfect contentment 



pnt "^ T-OuJk^ 'le^avoL 



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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

" Your association is honored to-night by the presence of 
the Hon. Job Hedges, who is probably one of the most re- 
markable men of the nineteenth century. He carries the 
record in New York of a politician without a party, and of 
a man who has held more offices in a given period than any 
inan before or since his time. He illustrates the idea of Gil- 
bert and Sullivan in * The Mikado,' of one man being able 
to hold a number of offices at the same time to the entire sat- 
isfaction of not only himself, but of the people generally. 
This is the most remarkable thing about him." 

As soon as Job began to practice law he engaged actively 
in political work of one kind or another. He frequented the 
primaries from the start, and soon became known as a very 
useful and earnest worker, with a ''gift of gab " that won au- 
diences as easily on the East side as in the aristocratic sections 
of the city. He was always prominent in the cause of good 
citizenship, and through several campaigns he fought hard 
with the forces organized to defeat Tammany Hall. It was 
only natural, therefore, when, as a result of the great Reform 
movement in 1894, the Tammany Tiger was routed, and 
Mayor Strong was elected on an independent ticket, Job should 
come in for some share in Reform administration. In 1894 
he was appointed secretary to Mayor Strong, and he remained 
in that office until 1897, when he resigned to accept a ten- 
year place as City Magistrate. Job refused to accept this 
place when it was first offered to him. The Magistrate's law 
prevents anyone holding a Magistrate's place from practising 
law or following any other business or profession, and Job 
had a large and growing practice which he was unwilling to 
surrender. He was, however, prevailed upon by Mayor Strong, 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

and served as Magistrate for about a year. His first appear- 
ance on the bench was recognized by elaborate floral decora- 
tions from his classmates in New York. Thereafter he was 
appointed, Deputy Attorney General for New York by Attor- 
ney General Davies. When the law establishing the Metro- 
politan Elections Districts was passed, Job Hedges was called 
on by the party to look out for the interests of the State. He 
served as prosecutor in many of the most important cases that 
were tried under the primary and general election laws, and 
secured many convictions. Job is, as all his classmates know, 
a man of sociable instincts, and in his political life he has 
made many friends, and won for himself a reputation as a most 
genial and lovable companion. His name has appeared within 
the last three or four years very frequently as one of a group 
of entertaining speakers on public occasions. As an after-din- 
ner speaker he is one of the few rivals of the famous Simeon 
Ford, and no better reading can be found in the morning pa- 
pers than an account of some public dinner at which these 
two genial antagonists have had a bout of wit. Job, as every 
Princeton man knows, has alway kept in close touch with his 
Alma Mater, and has been a prominent and devoted worker 
for Princeton's best interests. It will be noted in reading his 
report, printed herewith, that he regards the invitation to re- 
spond to the dinner to President Wilson on December 8, 
1902, as the best compliment he has received. 

WILLIAM TOD HELMUTH, 

PHYSICIAN, 26 EAST 6 2D STREET, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. 

Helmuth left Princeton in Freshman year in order to 
study medicine. He graduated at New York Homeopathic 



THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

College in 1887 and afterwards studied surgery abroad in 
London, Vienna, Paris, and Berlin. He was appointed sur- 
geon to the Laura Franklin Hospital in 1889; to the Flower 
Hospital in 1890; to the Hahnemann Hospital in 1903; con- 
sulting surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital in Passaic, N. J., in 1900, 
and consulting surgeon to Jamaica Hospital, L. L, 1902. 

Dr. Helmuth was appointed lecturer on Surgery in the 
New York Homeopathic College in 1 890, professor of or- 
thopaedic surgery in 1898, and professor of surgery and head 
of chair in 1903; he was also vice-president of County 
Medical Society of New York in 1903. The head of the 
chair of surgery in New York Homeopathic Medical College 
is the achievement of the past twenty years which has given 
him the most satisfaction, but his fondest ambition is still 
"a degree from Princeton." He was married April 17, 
1895, ^t St- Agnes' Church, New York City, to Miss Belle 
Lochman, the daughter of General John Lochman. T)r. 
Paul Kimball was at the wedding. He has two sons, William 
Tod Helmuth, Jr., aged seven, and John T. Helmuth, aged 
five. He says of himself that he has changed in every way 
since graduation ; has written a few monographs ; has no ac- 
complishments to speak of, and that his greatest social pleas- 
ure is ** football when Princeton wins." Helmuth belongs 
to the following clubs : 

New York Medical Club, Chirurgical Club, Unanimous 
Club, New York Athletic Club, New York Homeopathic 
State Society, New York County Society, American Institute. 

Among the medical profession of the Homeopathic school 
Helmuth is reputed to be one of the best surgeons in New 
York City. 

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GRIER HERSH, A.B., 

BANKER, YORK, PA. 

Grier says the circular for information gave- him the 
shudders, it was so Hke an examination paper. " I faintly re- 
call the fact that many years ago I was able to tell more than 
I knew, bv answering ten questions printed on a slip like 
yours. My percentage on questions covering three months 
was usually titty. How can a man be expected to tell the 
events of twenty years by answering ten questions, and receive 
a percentage of over ten?" 

We met a man recently who lived near York. We asked 
it he knew Hersh, or about him. He said : '* I guess we 
do. You can't get anywhere near York unless you pay trib- 
ute to Hersh. He either owns the whole or a large interest 
in everything around there." All Hersh says is, *' The stock- 
holders since 1895 have annually elected me President of the 
York National Bank." His status in the financial world may 
be judged from the fact that he is or has been the President 
of the Pennsylvania Bankers' Association. 

Hersh confesses to being an author. Of his writings he 
says : ** Simply a note or two protested, several historical 
sketches, a few articles on financial matters. I have never 
written a novel." 

Hersh was married in December, 1897, ^^ J'^^i^ L. 
Mayer. They have two children, Helen, aged i 2, and Mar- 
garet Grier, aged 7. They have a beautiful home at York, one 
of the most beautiful, we are told, in that part of the state. 

The old love of sports is still with him. Quite often we 
see his name in the papers among the winners of golf trophies 
at Lakewood, Atlantic City and elsewhere. 

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His love of the class and the college still runs high. We 
don't think he has missed one of our reunions. 



CARL I. HEYDRICK, A.B., 

LAWYER. EXCHANGE BANK BUILDING, FRANKLIN, PA. 

** Your duns for my class letter always find me ' broke ' for 
time and news worth telling. The present is never a conve- 
nient season for me to pay anything I owe, except attention 
to a pretty girl. 

" In your list of men not heard from, I see Moore, of 
Georgetown, Del. I heard last week that he is there doing 
a good law business. Draw on him and all other delinquents 
with registered letters, and make them answer. 

" Lots of our boys have accomplished something. If one 
is too modest to tell of himself, let someone else tell it. 
There ought to be someone from near Cincinnati to tell that 
Jelke has gotten to be a judge, and is as big a man in ' Old 
Porkopolis ' as Hedges is in 'Gotham.' Also that Jack Har- 
lan, in Chicago, is as big a man as * Mr. Dooley ' or Carter 
Harrison, and so on through the list. 

" You can't get the boys to brag about themselves. You 
must coax them to tell about each other. I don't believe 
any of us is either proud, ashamed, or jealous ; but if we have 
been on San Juan Hill, or in jail, we are none of us going to 
tell it of himself. So you can tell the boys that the only way 
to learn about each other is to attend the Alumni meetings, 
and the class banquet. I am going to attend the next if I 
have to walk. 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

'* If the rest feel as I do, we will have a glorious reunion 
of Princeton '84 at commencement this year. 

" We ought all of us to be at our best now. Let us all 
get together and see how good that is. 

*' Yours for '84 forever, 

*' Carl I. Heydrick." 

Apropos of Heydrick's suggestion we are glad to have 
found some one to tell about him. 

He represents the Standard Oil interests in and about 
Franklin, and is a shrewd and successful "oil" lawyer and 
operator. 

He can't play pool and billiards as well as he could in 
college, but he can show you a few points on petroleum. 

He is married, but has no children. 



FRANK S. HICKS, 

GENERAL INSURANCE, 1 27 WEST SECOND STREET, LOS ANGELES, CAL. 

Frank Hicks has been in the insurance business ever since 
graduation, and is now to be found at the above address in 
Los Angeles. The name of his firm is Childs, Hicks & 
Montgomery, and they represent in their business a number 
of the most prominent insurance companies, including the 
Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York, and the Fi- 
delity and Casualty Company of New York. Hicks was mar- 
ried on April 29, 1900, to Caroline M. Childs, daughter of 
Osro and Emmeline Childs. No classmates were at the wed- 
ding. He has one child, io}4 years old. He has received 
no titles or honors, and none of his writings have been pub- 

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lished. He is unable to give the various steps in his business 
career through lack of space. " Took too many steps " is his 
comment. Hicks, as all his classmates know, is of a sociable 
disposition, and it is no matter of surprise that he is a mem- 
ber of a number of clubs, societies, and organizations. He 
gives, however, in his communication to the class, very little 
definite information about such matters, telling us simply that 
there are a number of them, and that there is insufficient space 
to list them. His fondest ambition is to stand well with his 
friends and with the New York banker. He says that he has 
changed in various ways since graduation, but does not par- 
ticularize. The editors, however, feel confident that what- 
ever these changes have been, they have not affected Frank's 
cheerful and sunny disposition. The same old Frank is ap- 
parent in the '' chipper " tone of his responses to our inquir- 
ies. He has, he says, no good habits, and as for bad habits — 
" witness declines to answer." His favorite leisure occupations 
are hunting and golf, and he enjoys all social pleasures, while his 
ideal of perfect contentment is ** to be let alone." This last 
is, no doubt, intended for the Editors of the Record, who have 
been hot on his track for information. That it is *' not good 
for man to be alone," Frank appreciates surely as much as 
the majority of mankind, for like them he has entered into 
the blissful state of wedlock. 

WILLIAM C. HILL, A.B., 

CONSTRUCTOR, 2/ E. 22D STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

Hill has sent us the following letter : 

*' I have before me your circular letter in which you ask, 
in your own seductive and placid manner, the story of my 

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life. Few men, I am sure, will decline to unbosom them- 
selves after receiving such a sweet-spirited invitation. In vain 
will the men of 1884 seek to hide themselves behind such 
barriers as twenty years of contact with the world have 




WILLIAM C. HILL 



erected about their lives. Even my humor factory, which 
has long since been closed for repairs, has now been opened 
up and any serious consequences that result therefrom, I 
charge you now, will be laid at your door. Do not judge 
me nor permit others to do the same by reason of any im- 
pressions that my photograph may convey. I am much bet- 
ter looking than you think, and the photograph in question 



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does not reveal any of the kindly light with which my face 
is wont to be illumined. 

*' My present business address is 27 East Twenty-second 
Street. The name of my firm is Sturgis & Hill Co. My busi- 
ness partner is the present Fire Commissioner. Our business 
is construction. My residence is 323 West Eighty-seventh 
Street, New York City. I was married on the 22d of October, 
1885. The name of my wife is Martha Hill. I commend your 
requirement that marrying classmates shall furnish evidence 
of the tact. Ned Bradley was present at my wedding. There 
is additional evidence in the office of the County Clerk. My 
only child, whose name is Dudleigh, was born December 
15th, 1886, and I might add that my only scholastic honoris 
being the father of this Class boy. My business career has 
not been one of steps, jumps rather. The subject of degrees, 
titles or honors is, indeed, very delicate, and I touch upon it 
with all caution. I am pleased to be addressed as plain Mr. 
without any qualifying adjectives. In South America, where 
I have some interests, I have been alluded to in the press as 
the " Pirate of the Coast " and the " Hungry Gringo," and 
also the *' Grasping Yankee," but these Spanish-speaking peo- 
ple are given to extravagant terms in matters of this kind, 
and I assure you that such suggestions are by no means well 
founded. My business relations have invariably been con- 
ducted along the lines enjoined by the Golden Rule, and I 
disclaim anything of the character that such titles imply. 
Having been raised in a Christian family I have refused pub- 
lic office, although a long-suffering public has endeavored to 
thrust the same upon me from time to time. If I ever accept 
such an office it will be from motives of pure patriotism, and 

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for an eminent example of this spirit I refer to our classmate, 
Job Hedges. Military distinction has not fallen to my lot. 
The nearest approach to it, however, has been to stand on 
the sidewalk and watch Johnson Poe march by. It is a satis- 




DUDLEIGH HILL — CLASS EOY 



fying thought that the military greatness of the American 
nation is safe in the hands of such old war-dogs. My writ- 
ings have all been printed, not published. I insist upon keep- 
ing the product of my pen before a reading public despite the 
singular obtuseness of publishers. All my writings are part 
of one general theme, which I have thought best, from time 

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CLASS CUP 



to time, to contribute to the public press, namely, the 
' Apologia pro Vita Sua.' The necessities of the case 
render my contributions along this line far superior to Car- 
dinal Newman's best efforts. Of the societies, clubs and 
organizations which have been honored with my member- 
ship, little need be said. I might remark, however, that 
I served two terms as treasurer of the Princeton Club of 
New York, and also that the Club is still in existence 

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and financially vigorous. The experience was unique ; all 
the complaints or evidences of dissatisfaction with the policy 
of the Club which 1,200 members could furnish were ad- 
dressed to the Treasurer. You may have noticed the mol- 
lifying manner which is my chief characteristic. I exercised 
this to such an extent during my term in office that it has 
been entirely eliminated from my nature forever more. If I 
ever undertake the work again, I will first secure as a private 
secretary the heavyweight champion pugilist and refer all 
complaints to him for settlement. I acted as treasurer with 
great profit to the club and to myself. 

*' My fondest ambition is, as ever, to pass my examina- 
tions. This is no joke. Those seasons of anxiety through 
which we passed three times a year as students are occur- 
ring daily or oftener in the lives of active men, and I question 
whether any of us feel that we have attained such positions 
of freedom from responsibility that we can regard examina- 
tions as a matter of the past. Our qualifications are on con- 
stant trial in every departinent of life, and I believe that they 
will never cease until the last chapter is written. 

" The greatest achievement of the past twenty years has 
been to contribute this letter to your collection. I have 
changed since graduation. I am older now and no longer 
smoke cigarettes. I have no accomplishments that need be 
mentioned in this letter, and, likewise, around the subject of 
habits, good or bad, I think it wise to draw a kindly veil. 
My favorite leisure occupation is riding in the surface cars of 
this city. I have no time for anything else outside of my 
business affairs. This also is no joke But I am able to 
combine, with such pleasure as I am able to derive, much 

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benefit of a physical character in the athletic exercise which 
necessarily results. Hanging on street-car straps is the best 
possible exercise for the arm muscles. Holding you own in 
the rush hours develops the muscles of the legs and body, and 
catching the car is most excellent for the wind. These thin2;s 
may seem trivial, but to me they are very important, and 
because of these things I maintain fine bodily health and 
strength. Social pleasures are endured, not enjoyed ; and by 
the same process of reasoning I may say that an afternoon 
reception or a progressive card party is about the limit. Your 
final query with regard to my ideal of perfect contentment 
is, of all the others, the m.ost difficult to answer without elab- 
oration of thought and diction. I have always regarded per- 
fect contentment as somewhat akin to an ignis fatuiis, for it 
is never attainable when I am ready to grasp it. Possibly 
the nearest approach is sleep, but that is somewhat marred 
by the knowledge of the awakening that is to follow. I 
cannot add anything of interest or benefit to this letter, and 
will close with the hope that all my classmates are able to 
regard the past twenty years as years of achievement and 
progress, and that their ideals of success and perfect content- 
ment may be realized to the fullest degree. 

" Very truly yours, 

''William C. Hill." 

Dr. ANGIER B. HOBBS, A.B., A.M, M.D., 

MEDICAL BOARD OF NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO., 346 BROADWAY- 
NEW YORK CITY. 

" A long time ago I received a class communication, con- 
taining many questions, queer — and otherwise, such as : * What 

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is your loftiest ideal, and if you have none, what will it be 
ten years from now ? The time for the natural birth of 
this fund of information seemed so far in the future that I 
pushed the document to one side, resolving in due time 
to give it the certain categorical consideration which it seemed 
to demand. It is, apparently, lost, but perhaps it is just as well. 

" I graduated from the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons in New York City in 1889, and afterwards was on the 
house staff of Roosevelt Hospital." 

By reference to the 1889 records it will be remembered 
that Hobbs graduated with distinction, taking the third Har- 
sen prize of $200 for proficiency in examination, and also re- 
ceived a Diploma of Examination Honors, together with an- 
other prize of $25. 

He did not enter into his medical studies immediately 
upon leaving Princeton, but taught in the High School in 
Washington, D. C, for a time, traveled in Germany and took 
a special course at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 

He was married on October 20, 1897, ^^ Miss Caroline 
M. Henderson, and about the same year he was obliged to go 
to California for his health. This disturbed the plans laid 
down for his life, but he became completely restored, and re- 
turned to New York, and is now on the Medical Board of 
the New York Life Insurance Co. 

He has one daughter, Caroline Angier Hobbs, 4^ years 
old, of whom he writes : *' She will certainly go to Prince- 
ton if the authorities ever look with favor upon co-education. 
At any rate she will champion the Orange and Black, and 
help the football toward the right goal." 

Dr. Hobbs expects soon to go abroad. 

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Rev. CHARLES J. HOWELL, 

CLERGYMAN. LONGMONT, BOULDER CO., COLORADO. 

After graduation Howell studied for the ministry at Au- 
burn Theological Seminary. When he had completed his 
course there, he was called to the Presbyterian Church at Am- 
boy, near Syracuse, N. Y. After a term of several years 
there he went to the Presbyterian Church at La Grange, Ills. 
From there to the Pine Street Presbyterian Church, Harris- 
burg, Pa, , in association with the pastor of that church. Later 
he took charge of the work of Bethany Chapel. In February, 
1 90 1, he received a call to the Central Presbyterian Church 
of Longmont, Colorado, where he still remains. 

He was married on January 17, 1889, at Auburn, N. Y., 
to Miss Cornelia M. Griggs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam- 
uel T. Griggs. Smith Ordway was present at his wedding. 
Howell has a boy now 8 years old, Charles J. Howell, }r., 
by name. The only honor he lays claim to is that of hav- 
ing prospered in his work at every place — an honor, by the 
way, that any man might be proud to claim. Replving to 
the question concerning printing or publishing of his writ- 
ing, Howell says : " I have occasionally and sporadically broken 
into print, and have had the distinction a few times of hav- 
ing my sermons printed." His fondest ambition is " to glor- 
ify God and enjoy him forever," and the personal achieve- 
ment that has given him most satisfaction is the building-up 
of one church edifice, and the prospect of the erection of an- 
other. The only way that he has changed since graduation 
is that he is twenty years older, but he adds, *' I am just as 
young as I used to be." 

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We must quote it in full : '* I have formed the habit of hard 

work, which I hope will grow. As for bad habits, I neither 

drink, smoke, gamble, chew, or vote the Democratic ticket." 

His favorite leisure occupation is reading, when he can 




CHARLE? ]. HijWJ;LL 



get a chance, and the social pleasures that he most enjoys are 
the comforts of home. This, too, is part of his ideal ot per- 
fect contentment, and he then adds : " There is no such con- 
dition as perfect contentment in this life. If there were, one 
would lapse into the dreamy tropical Utopia where all pro- 
gress would cease, and man would simply vegetate ; but the 
ideal by which perfect contentment can be ultimately reached. 



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is to have a high and noble aim of unselfish devotion to the 
right and for the good of others. In other words, altruism 
is the perfect ideal, and I am more and more convinced that 
it is realized only in the life surrender to Jesus Christ." 

REV. ROBERT. S. HUNTER, A.B., D.D., 

clergyman: PASTOR OF KENSINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, PHIL- 
ADELPHIA, PA. 

Rev. Robert Hunter's place in the class of '84 was an 
unique one. 

He had been seven years in the ministry and was mar- 
ried and had two children before he came to Princeton. His 
college feeling seemed to be no less strong than that of the 
other men, and his loyalty to '84 is noted. 

He wrote an enthusiastic account of the commencement 
of 1899, which was published in the Presbyterian Journal ot 
June 22 of that year. His son was then a student in Prince- 
ton, graduating in 1901. 

In this article Mr. Hunter says : " Every thoughtful ob- 
server must have been impressed with the fact that Prince- 
ton abides by her sublime traditions in all that appertains to 
fundamental educational principles, while, at the same time, 
she is modifying her methods of instruction and details of 
administration, to meet in an aggressive but wisely conserva- 
tive spirit the varied demands of the day. 

" Princeton spirit was never more in evidence, whether in 
services, speeches or in the vim with which the old songs were 
sung or the old cheer given." 

Another unique feature of Hunter's life has been the tact 

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that he has been the pastor of the Kensington Presbyterian 
Church of Philadelphia ever since he left Princeton. The church 
then numbered 400; to-day it numbers more than 850 with a 
Sunday school of iioo. It is now called The Union Tab- 
ernacle. Eleven years ago it moved farther up town, with 
the result of steady growth ever since. Hunter has held the 
following church positions : 

Permanent Clerk of the Presbytery of Philadelphia ; 
Stated Clerk of the Synod of Pennsylvania ; Member of the 
General Assembly's Board of Education ; Member of the 
Committee on Examinations and Credentials in the Presby- 
tery of Philadelphia ; Member of the Executive Committee 
on Evangelistic Work in same Presbytery, also member of 
the Committee of Presbytery in its relations to the Presby- 
terian Historical Society. 

He has represented his Presbytery four times in the Gen- 
eral Assembly and had the honor of serving as a Member ot 
the Executive Committee of the General Assembly's Com- 
mittee on the Twentieth Century Fund, during the three 
years of its existence. 

He is a regular correspondent of the " Presbyterian Ban- 
ner " of Pittsburg; "The Interior" of Chicago; "The 
Presbyterian Journal " of Philadelphia, and an occasional 
writer for other magazines. 

He has also compiled a successful book ot church music. 

The daughter of Mr. Hunter was a little girl going to 
school in Princeton when he was in the University and is as 
loyal to Princeton as her father and brother, although mar- 
ried early in 1904, to a Haverford College man, who is also a 
graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. 



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Dr. RANDALL HUTCHINSON, A.B., A.M., M.D., 

PHYSICIAN, 324 BRADBURY BUILDING, CORNER THIRD STREET AND 
BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES, CAL. 

After his Princeton course, Hutchinson graduated at the 
medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, and entered 
the Philadelphia Hospital as resident physician, where he re- 
mained from May, 1887, to June 30, 1888. He then re- 
signed this position to become resident physician in Philadel- 
phia Orthopedic Hospital, and Infirmary for Nervous Dis- 
eases. In November of the same year he became assistant 
physician to Dr. Wentz at Hazleton, Pa. In 1891 he re- 
moved to take charge of the colliery practice at Landgratt 
and Eckman, West Virginia, and is now, since 1899, perma- 
nently located at Los Angeles, Cal. Dr. Hutchinson has 
been President of the Board of Health in McDowell County, 
West Virginia, examining physician for United States Pension 
Bureau, McDowell County, West Virginia, Examining Phy- 
sician for Mutual Life Insurance Company, Los Angeles, 
California, Instructor in Medicine in University of Southern 
California Medical College. He was married September 3 i , 
1887, at Salem, West Virginia, to Miss Helen Munson, daugh- 
ter of Dr. George Munson of Denver, Col. He has no 
children. Dr. Hutchinson writes that '* he has shaved off his 
moustache and found a few gray hairs; that there are too 
many lawyers and ministers in the class of 1884 to put him- 
self on record as to his habits, good, or bad ; but floriculture, 
dancing, whist and horse-racing make up his favorite occu- 
pations and pleasures. " The saving of human life and relief 
of suffering " is the achievement of the past twenty years 
which has given him most satisfaction. He is a member of 

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the following clubs : University Club of Philadelphia, Uni- 
versity Club of Los Angeles, CaL, University Ethical Club 
of Los Angeles, CaL, Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity, University 
of Southern California, American Medical Association, 
County Medical Society, Los Angeles, CaL, California State 
Medical Association. 

Hutchinson's business card reads as follows : 

Randall Hutchinson, M.D. 

OFFICE HOURS, 10-12 A. M. PHONE. OFFICE, RED 2706 

" '' 1-4 V. M. RES., WHITE 6176 

If '• Hutch. "ever feels /?/iie and sees stars, he must feel like 
a good American. 

ALBERT M. JACKSON, A.B., A.M., 

PRINCIPAL WESTERN MILITARY ACADEMY, UPPER ALTON, ILL. 

Jackson has taught ever since he left Princeton, and with 
apparent enjoyment of his work, as he says that the achieve- 
ment which has given him the greatest pleasure has been " the 
assurance that he has helped some boys to become manly 
men." 

In 1885 he taught at Blairstown Academy, and in 1886 
went to Western Military Academy, first as teacher, after- 
ward becoming principal in 1888. 

On July 6, 1885, he married Miss Jennie Simons at Ed- 
inboro. Pa., and he has three children — Florence, Ralph and 
Grace. 

He is Colonel of the National Guards of Illinois, and is a 
member of the following clubs and societies : All College 

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Club of Alton, M. W. A. of America, Building and Loan 
Association, Golf Club, Country Club, Illinois National 
Guard, Princeton Club of St. Louis. 

We suspect that Jackson will soon be President of the 
United States. He has his eye fixed on the top round of the 
ladder, and he is not content till he reaches it. No inter- 
mediate position for him. Principal of his school. Colonel 
in the National Guards, President of his Building Association, 
etc., etc. We wish we all had his grit and perseverance and 
ability. 

Hon. FERDINAND JELKE, Jr., A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT OF OHIO, COURT HOUSE, CINCINNATI, OHIO. 

In 1889 Jelke wrote for the record : " I have nothing of 
interest to report. I am busy and happy. Am a member 
of the law firm of Roelker & Jelke." 

Since then there is a great deal to report, for no man in 
our class has risen higher in place of honorable preferment. 
It is the acme of the lawyer's ambition to become Judge of 
the Supreme Court of the State, and that point was reached 
by Jelke in 1900. 

He doesn't seem to have made any '* steps in his profes- 
sion ; " he rose by bounds and was soon Judge of the Court 
of Common Pleas. 

Thereafter he was unanimously endorsed by the Republi- 
can Executive Committee to fill a vacancy as Circuit Court 
Judge in July, 1900. ''There was no opposition to him" 
[to quote the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune of July 12, 
1900J, "as all other aspirants for the honor withdrew in his 
favor when it became known that he was a candidate." 

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He was inaugurated February 9, 1901. The Cincinnati 
Enquirer of the next day said : 

"Judge Jelke goes on the bench of the Appellate Court 
ripe from a number of years' experience on the Common 




FERDINAND JELKE, JR. 



Pleas bench, and thus exceptionally equipped for his work 
in the higher tribunal. He seems to be fitted by nature for 
judicial work, and was an able jurist in the place he has just 
vacated." 

Jelke has also made for himself a place not only in State 
but in National politics. Readers of the newspapers will re- 
member that recently his name was mentioned prominently 

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for the Governorship of his State. It will also be remem- 
bered that he was summoned by President Roosevelt to his 
home on Long Island in reference to the political conditions 
in Ohio. 

He is very much in demand in Ohio for addresses before 
societies of many kinds and of various nationalities. 

He was married on January 14, 1891, to Miss Daisy 
Elizabeth Spence, and his boy, now six years old, is Ferdi- 
nand Jelke III. 

He has made but one response to the Secretary's appeal 
for facts concerning his achievements, ideals, ambitions, pleas- 
ures, etc. He says he has grown ** fatter." 

The following amusing incident, from the New York 
Times, July i ?, 1900, will be interesting because of its light 
on the cheerful humaneness of the character of the success- 
ful Judge : 

Cincinnati, July 17. — "Gentlemen of the jury," said Judge 
Jelke in the Court of Common Pleas to-day, " no one believes in 
maintaining the dignity of the court more than I do, but in this weather 
I think some liberties should be permitted. Those of vou who wish 
may take your coats off." 

No move. Assistant City Solicitor Wadehellis : " Does that 
also apply to the counsel ? " 

Judge Jelke said : "Yes, that also applies to counsel." 

Instantly several coats were shed and an arrav of shirtage in all 
degrees of sound, from the calliope to the silence of white, was dis- 
played. The jury, however, still hesitated. 

" For fear there may be any hesitation," said the humane Judge, 
" I'll take off my coat myself." 

Plaintiff and defendant, witness, jurymen and stenographer soon 
" peeled," and in one moment were comfortable. 

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JOHN GUNDRY JENNINGS, 

PETROLEUM. FIRM OF E. H. JENNINGS & BRO., NEGLEY AVENUE, NEAR 
ROUP STATION, PITTSBURG, PA. 

It is a strange thing that a man may be of considerable 
importance, and yet it is hard to get much definite informa- 
tion concerning him personally. It's that way with Jennings. 
Rejoined us in September, i88i,and left the following De- 
cember. Brady's Bend, Pa., was the address given in our 
Freshman Catalogue. Not one word has been heard of him 
directly since. Scraps of news, however, have been gathered 
here and there, and the editors of the Record have put to- 
gether these few facts. It is a pity that there is no more 
information to be had about Jennings. 

The Secretary of the Princeton Club of Pittsburg gives 
us the above address. Bigham looked him up for us, and 
writes that he is in the oil business, a member of the firm of 
E. H. Jennings & Bro., which firm is a very strong one. He 
says he is a " hustler," is well-to-do, and an enthusiastic 
Princeton man. The following incident which we noticed in 
the paper, confirms Bigham's views. Speaking of the Alumni 
dinner at Pittsburgh, and Dr. Stewart's address on the Alumni 
gymnasium, the account continued : '' At the conclusion of 
this address John G. Jennings, '84, of Pittsburg, said he 
would give $500 for the gymnasium. Then the Hon. 
Job E. Hedges, '84, of New York, responded to The East- 
ern Question. In the course of his remarks he said that if 
Dr. Stewart, a casual acquaintance of Mr. Jennings, could 
obtain from him a subscription of $500, he, a classmate, should 
get from him at least that sum, whereupon Mr. Jennings in- 
creased his subscription to $1,000." 

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O N 



Professor ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, 

DIED JULY 19, 1899. 

Professor Johnston was our one and only honorary mem- 
ber. We were his first class at Princeton, and, as he often 
declared, his ** first and best love." 

Never a meeting or reunion of our class occurred during 
his lifetime without some loving message from him. His 
face will be found in our class groups. He took some part 
in each of our reunions until June, 1889. At our dinner a 
letter from him was read, and all were filled with sadness to 
know how close he stood to death's door. The following 
resolution was drawn impromptu and adopted at once : 

Whereas, the esteemed instructor and honorary member of our 
class, Alexander Johnston, has been confined to a bed of suffering for 
many months, and thereby prevented from imparting that instruction 
to the students of our Alma Mater, the value of which the members 
of the class of '84 so fully appreciate ; 

And whereas, we have this night, as graduate-sons of old Nas- 
sau, gathered together to commemorate our Quinquennial Anniver- 
sary and to renew the associations and friendships of the past; 

Therefore be it resolved that we, the members of the class of 
'84, keenly appreciating the loss in pleasure to ourselves occasioned 
by the absence from our midst of one so truly loved and honored by 
our class, do hereby extend to him our heartiest sympathies in his ill- 
ness and our sincerest wishes for a speedy recovery. 

And be it further resolved that, though deprived of the pleasure 
of his personal presence to-night, we sincerely hope we may enjoy his 
company and friendly counsel in every future reunion of our class. 

In July came the sad message of his death, and a 
committee of five, with a tribute of flowers, proceeded 

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to Princeton to pay our last respects to our departed 
friend. 

It was very fitting that a classmate of ours (Butler) should 
have revised and completed Professor Johnston's Brief His- 
tory of the United States, and it was appropriate, too, that 
many of our members should have been instrumental in pro- 
viding the means which carried Professor Johnston's daugh- 
ter through her college course. 



Dr. NEWELL L. JOHNSON, A.M., M.D., 

PHYSICIAN, 629 WEST 4TH STREET, WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA. 

Johnson is now a physician at Williamsport, Pennsyl- 
vania. He left college in junior years ; tried a business ca- 
reer for five years. In 1888 he entered the Medical Depart- 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated 
in I 891, having been President of his class. On January last, 
he was elected President of the Lycoming County Medical 
Society and visiting physician of the City Hospital. He is very 
successful in his profession and has written considerably on 
medical topics, though as yet no book from his pen has been 
published. 

On June 20, 1893, ^^ ^^^ married to Miss Gula B, 
White, daughter of John A. White. 

He is a member of a number of societies and organiza- 
tions, including the Lycoming County Medical Society, 
Pennsylvania; State Medical Society, American Medical 
Association, Ross Club, Temple Club (Knights Templar), 
Philadelphia Sigma Society, Williamsport Board of Trade, 
and W. M. Lodge, No. 397 F. and A. M. 

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NEWELL L. JOHNSON 



MOORHEAD C. KENNEDY, C. E., 

VICE-PRESIDENT OF CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD, CHAMBERS- 
BURG, PENNSYLVANIA. 

Upon graduation, Kennedy and Darling, who had been 
room-mates in college, went at once to Wyoming, where 
Kennedy purchased a ranch on Powder River and they en- 
gaged in the cattle business. In 1887 he left Wyoming and 
established a private bank in Junction City, Kansas. In 1889 
he returned to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where he en- 
tered the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company as Assistant 
to the President. 

He is at present Vice-President and General Superin- 

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tendent of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company with 
headquarters at Chambersburg. He is also Vice-President of 
the Valley National Bank of Chambersburg, and President of 
the Valley Traction Company. 

He was married on June 25th, 1891, to Miss Margaret 
Coyle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Coyle, at the 
Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pa. He 
has now four children : 

Thomas B., 3d, aged 11 ; James Coyle, aged 10 ; 
Margaret C, aged 7; MoorheadC, Jr., aged 2. 

He is a member of the University Club of Philadelphia. 

In a railway accident near Newville, Pennsylvania, on 
New Year's day M. C. Kennedy narrowly escaped serious in- 
jury. The following account is from the "Chambersburg 
Repository." 

*' Mr. Kennedy sat dozing in the third seat from the rear 
of the coach, and when it overturned, was thrown the length 
of the car to the front door. He was unconscious for a brief 
time, but when he revived he at once took charge of the relief 
work, himself bleeding and badly bruised." In this injured 
condition Mr. Kennedy *' helped the wounded, directed the 
rescuers, and ran the train bringing the injured here, jump- 
ing off the caboose and throwing switches. After all were in 
the hospital, he obeyed the doctors and went home and went 
to bed." 

The newspaper then adds : *'As an undergraduate, Mr. 
Kennedy was a famous football player." All the boys of '84 
know that fact well enough and they also know that any em- 
ergency demanding steady nerve would find Jack Kennedy 
equal to the situation. 

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H. W. KESSLER, 

CHEMIST, BRANDT, PA. 

There are no previous records of Kessler's career. On 
March 26, 1902, he writes of himself: ** After leaving col- 
lege a place was opened for me in a chemical works for which 
I had a decided liking, but no theoretical training, then for 
the first time I began to study with an object in view, and I 
have remained at the same business, with various side issues, 
and have continued my studies so that I have been able to 
build up quite a successful and fairly profitable business for 
myself. 

" I have had many ambitions that have come to nothing, 
and life has finally come to be a routine of hard work with 
the satisfaction of accomplishing something aside from the 
money view. I have never coveted public or political posi- 
tions; habits are fixed both good and bad. A hunting or fishing 
trip now and then filling up the leisure time, and the sense ot 
accomplishing something brings a degree of contentment." 

He was married on October 29, 1885, at Pleasant Mount, 
Pa., to Miss Minnie Atwater, and they have two children — 
Charles A., 14 years old, and Katharine, 9. 

Kessler is a member of the Society of Chemical In- 
dustry. 

Dr. PAUL T. KIMBA.LL, A.B., A.M., M.D., 

PHYSICIAN, LAKEWOOD, NEW JERSEY. 

Kimball took his medical course in the New York Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons and graduated in April, 
1887. 

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He became Ambulance Surgeon at the Chambers Street 
Hospital and afterwards Senior Assistant at the Woman's Hos- 
pital, New York. He writes that he is now " peddling pills" 
down in Lakewood ''and as far as I am able to remember am 
about the same article I was in '84 when we left Princeton — 
certainly have not improved any. Am still unmarried but strug- 
gling hard and am still hopeful. I fear I shall not be at the 
class re-union as I expect to go abroad about the iniddle of 
May. Should I be here will certainly be on hand to whoop 
her up once more for old '84." 

The newspapers say that Kimball is a prominent factor in 
life at Lakewood. For a while he was famous as a golfer 
and as a wing shot. If recent newspaper accounts are to be 
credited Kimball is the physician for the family of Mr. 
George Gould and travels extensively with them. He has 
recently returned from a trip to California with them. 

Dr. JAMES W. KING, M.D., 

PHYSICIAN, STOTTSVILLE, N. Y. 

King is a successful physician at Stottsville, Columbia 
County, New York. He is president of the Medical Society 
of that county, and has been for many years Health Officer 
of his town. For two years after he graduated from the 
Albany Medical College he was House Physician at the 
Albany Hospital. He sends us as his idea of prosperity : 

" Enough for the present to eat and to wear. 
*' Enough when aged to have and to spare." 

On July 25 last, he married Cornelia, the daughter of 
Roswell and Matilda Gleason. 

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Rev. WILLIAM LANGDON, A.B., A.M., 

BOOK BUSINESS, HAMILTON, BERMUDA. 

Two severe nervous break-downs interfered with Lang- 
don's work to the extent of completely revolutionizing his 
plans of life. 

He took a Post Graduate course in Philosophy at Prince- 
ton, and after that a course in the Theological Seminary and 
went to Pekin, China, as a missionary of the Presbyterian 
Church. The Board of Missions speak of his work there in 
the highest terms, and of him as a valuable man " bright in 
intellect and consecrated in spirit, devoting himself with sub- 
lime taith to the work of enlightening and reclaiming his fel- 
low-men. He broke down at his work in China and returned 
to America in 189 1. In 1892 a second illness interfered still 
more seriously with his plans, and since then he has spent a 
large part of his time in Florida and Bermuda, adapting his 
life to the necessities of the case — tutor, schoolmaster, pulpit- 
supply, and " cycle-porter." He is now in the book busi- 
ness at Hamilton, Bermuda. 

On June i, 1899, at Hamilton, Bermuda, he married 
Miss Harriet Frances Burrows, daughter of Rev. Dr. Andrew 
Burrows. They have no children. This letter was received 
from him in January, 1903 : 

"I return herewith my last examination paper, lour 
blank suggests that you would make quite a stiff inquisitor as 
a college professor. At least for those who are ' not pre- 
pared.' Well, a compensation for a ' low standard ' man is 
that he will not excite the envy of his fellow classmates while 
he can rejoice in their brilliant achievements. I see I am 
not as far out of the world as a baker's dozen of the fellows 

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whom you have lost track of. Wishing you all success in 
your labors for class and Alma Mater, I am yours, 

"William M. Langdon." 



Hon. JAMES M. LAWSON, A.B., A.M. 

ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA 

Our C^inquennial Record found Lawson in Philadelphia, 
having previously spent some time as a practicing lawyer in 
Aberdeen, South Dakota. His letter to us at that time is 
interesting in view of his subsequent career. He said to us : 
" While no longer * a citizen of the West, I am at least a 
thorough Westerner, being fully convinced that its future will 
be proportionately greater than that of any of the older parts.' " 
Lawson returned to the West and as a member of the State 
Senate of South Dakota in 1899; President of the Senate in 
1901 ; Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1903 ; and 
Chairman ot the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1903, Law- 
son has attained his ambitions with honor to himself and to 
his adopted State. As a lawyer and politician "Jim" is to 
be credited with a number of articles and pamphlets on gen- 
eral and political subjects which have found favor with his 
readers. Princeton is looking to him for new influence and 
prestige now that he has become President of the Alumni 
Association of the New North West. It may also be well to 
mention that if any member of " eighty-four " is short of gold, 
he can call upon our friend Lawson as President of the Cleo- 
patra Gold Mining Company. 

"Jim's" apology for being unmarried needs explanation. 
He says : " Too many people married now * before they were 

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ripe.' " When asked how he has changed since graduation, 
*' Jim " says : *' I am about the same, but do not feel as wise." 
Recently the ''Minneapolis Journal" said of him : " Lawson 
of Aberdeen is a student and orator who has by no means 




JAMES M. LAWSON 



reached the height of his powers. If a faction . . . sets out 
to elevate Mr. Lawson from the State Senate to the United 
States Senate, the mov^ement is likely to be successful." 
" Eighty-four " will be truly honored when Lawson takes his 
place among the august lawmakers at Washington. 

The above portrait is from a recent photograph and 
shows the statesm.anlike look that Lawson has developed. 

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EDWARD S. LEAVITT 



EDWARD S. LEAVITT, A.B., LL.B. 

E. S. Leavitt died July 8, 1903, at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

He was married February 16, 1892, to Miss Lily Packer, 
and left 3 children, Edward, 10; Emily 9, and Robert, 5. 

He graduated from Cincinnati Law School and the Class 
Record of '89 reports him as having opened a law office at 
37 Wiggins Block, Cincinnati. 

Among other public positions which Leavitt filled were 
Membership of the Cincinnati Board of Education and 
Secretaryship of the Cincinnati Blaine Club. He was also an 
Officer of the Cincinnati Elks and was Mason 32"^. 

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The following minutes were adopted by the class upon his 
death : 

The members of the Class of '84 of Princeton University record 
with greatest sorrow the death of their classmate, EDWARD S. 
LEAVITT. 

It is gratifying also to record that his life-work carried into frui- 
tion the promise of his College days. 

The community in which he lived has lost a good man, an excel- 
lent lawyer and a valuable citizen. 

We, his classmates, will ever cherish his memory, and do join 
with his widow and family in mourning that a life of so much good 
and usefulness should have been terminated so early. 

Ambrose G. Todd, 

For the Class. 



CHESTER F. LEE, 

MINING ENGINEER, 7 1 SAFE DEPOSIT BUILDING, SEATTLE, WASH. 

" The class circular came this morning having been for- 
warded to me from Spokane. I am glad you are going to 
get up a new record, and I hope great things for it. I haven't 
seen a classmate in eight years — then I saw ' Jane ' Harris for 
a couple of days. Princeton men are all too scarce out this 
way. We have a very good University Club here of one hun- 
dred members, and there are only three Princeton men in it. 
When I left college I thought a Yale man was a natural en- 
emy, now I think any college man is my friend, and Yale men 
are nearer to me than any of the rest after our own fellows. 
I don't know whether I can make it to get back to the re- 
union or not, but I am going to make a bold stagger at it. 
You chaps back there in New York can say glibly : * Why, 

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of course you can come if you only think so.' For you it 
only means a day or two of time and a few dollars expense. 
For me it means two weeks in going and coming, and about 
$300 for traveling expenses, just at my busiest time — never- 
theless I am going to try for it. I haven't any photograph 
at all recent, but will send you one during the current year. 
You will see by it that my whiskers, which I wear just the 
same as in senior year, are quite gray. I own up to 4 1 , but I was 
taken for '48 or 50' recently. Nothing very startling, striking 
or even amusing has happened to me. I have never made any 
very great mark, nor have J been a particularly easy mark for 
others. I am thoroughly identified with the West. I am 
not only in it, but of it, and expect to make my home on this 
coast for the rest of my days. I like the climate. I like 
the people, and I do not care to go East for more than a visit. 
I am rejoiced to see that old Princeton now has a President 
who is the right sort — truly ' a man of light and leading.' I 
am gratified beyond measure at what he is saying and doing. 
I was especially pleased at the recent saying of his, that there 
was a great deal of cant about character-building, and that if 
a boy was doing something worth while the character part 
would take care of itself. Our Alma Mater will now take a 
great brace, I feel sure, and it will be of the right sort, too. 
If you know of any Princeton men coming this way, send 
them to see me. I will give them a warm welcome, I assure 
you. Give my regards to any of the class you may see. 

Rev. S. H. LEEPER, A.B., A.M., 

CLERGYMAN, COATESVILLE, PA. 

Leeper is really a member of the class of '85, but as he 

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I. Present 



Please give a Complete Record since Graduation. 

business address %L ^'^J^ '^^^^^h^.../^<^l .^($LU^C7..kY.a^._ . 

Name of firm or company >Zj^^1^...^.....y.T:Aa^^J?i^^-Y-.«r^....V:^^ 

Your residence /./..0....9. (3!U^..^, M^^'UM^. 

2. If married, give date and place /V\-<yOUiA. y-*-^^. Vr-V^ J^'!^-'/.^.''....Jj~fP.... 

Name of wife CC<<,-<a^^... ..//.» lU). ^(-/^jXaA^.. 

Name of her parents yX..'A^..^^r':-^.....!*-^....../.Cp.-:h.^^ 

Any classmates present at wedding '^.r"...r 

Name and ages of any children L^cct-' /^-^M-^.y .'T'^?*-^?'^^'''^^''-^-^ y^-*-^^ 

iJkJLL.^. */ J^^fS*-*4:r.-.^.^^..r. ../.^<?:..,^. 

3. Give the various steps in jv'our business or professional career. 

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Mt'^^rGM^^Zi'l..... C^^/i'^s^....<^^L.,.v-.^ (^. t2^..-...^..3. -ri^^v^s^....^^?-^..^^^ 

4. Please give details regarding following : — 

Any degrees, titles or honors you have received \/.IJ^^..../^r'^r^ -'V^-'~-^ 

JLa^kkj-^^ 

Any ofiice or position, public, semi-public, political, military or commercial you 

have filled 'f^^^-^^^. r:i'--S-'^-"^.?:^.V^. ^i'-^Sr-r^-T^*^ .^'■r^r'r'---'--^^ 

5. Have any of your writings been printed or published. Give complete list with date 
(2-.../AJU.^AuJnrf..A^......J^^ -y^ Jj^SZL^'?^...^?!^^^ '='r-^^..... 

CHESTER F. LEE '45 



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6. Of what societies, clubs, Boards or organizations of any kind have you been a member 

CIm^- p^>-t!Ouu,>-:yT:^.. ll-<^J^^^^,..V'y'^^ .e^^^<-^. -../^^-ry-wrf^ 

7. If you are not married, what apologies have you to ofler 

/c/ .jU^.jtr ^^<^ 

8. What is your fondest ambition (..<>. J~h^..^^^rt-»-^r^^r<i^..^ 

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9. What personal achievement in the past twenty years has given you the most satis- 

faction ^^rVyy^fA...,^^ <<vs:^ir^ -^ J^^^r^- *^f^--.."rO;^t?^2?:vs/=' ^^^ 



ID. In what ways do you think you have changed since graduation. .-.../T^r^?>/^-«-^^ 

11. What accomplishments have you .y.....Ar.»w xcXj»-rvt>W^ t^ ^ 

12. Have you any fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they / L^j <^-xjJ~^ yi-a-KAj.i.jJiB^-L^ 

13. What is your favorite leisure occupation. /<z,^/.<_a-^;^. /'L<.«.x-<^<.^ 

14. What social pleasure do you most enjoy MyrS^i^Z^L^....'§^tr^?^^,t^^/^..^ aX\ 

t6-KiiJf^ #r^4rrr.."?>av- .<*^.y6!y^..'/...2J^ 9^!^. .'>r??y:r....?^?r^'^-"^r^feL*,*i^. 

15. What is your ideal of perfect contentment J.^::ff\^....^o^^^^^^.<'^'^^ jZZU/. 



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was connected with our class for some time, we claim him 
at least in part. 

He graduated with '85, and entering the Theological Sem- 
inary graduated there in 1888. Before completing his course 
he received a call from the Presbyterian Church of New Lon- 
don, which he did not accept. The summer of 1888 he 
supplied the pulpit of the Boundary Avenue Presbyterian 
Church of Baltimore, and returned to the seminary in the 
fall to take a Post Graduate Course. In June, 1889, ^^ ^^" 
came the pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Mount Hollv, 
N. J., where he spent six years, during which his church 
doubled its membership. He left this parish with regret to 
accept a call to Coatesville. This he did because it opened 
the way to a return to the hills of Pennsylvania, which he 
and his wife love, and to which he was advised by his phy- 
sician to return. 

On the 5th of June, 1890, he was married to Laura Fer- 
guson, a graduate of Wells College of the class of '84. They 
have three children. 



EMIL LEUTE, A.B., A.M., 

CHIEF CLERK, WEIGHEr's DEPARTMENT, CUSTOMS SERVICE. APPRAIS- 
ER'S STORES, 134 SOUTH 2ND STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

Leute sends us the following splendid letter : 
*' If ever men loved one another, of course they do after a 
twenty-year separation. All the bovs of '84 want to have 
* heart to heart talks.' How delightful that would be if each 
fellow could and would tell of all the bumps and knocks, as 
well as the smiles of fortune. It is Princeton affection that 

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has made us what we are, and your letter is a clarion call to 
keep ever eager for the fray. 

" Wherever we are, whatever we do, nothing is so true, 
nothing so good, as the glad, eager hand shake of some old- 




EMIL LEUTE 



time, loyal Princeton man. And they 're all true. Why, hang 
it, Ambrose, finer hearts than those of yours and ' Scotch ' 
Tod, Gandy Reeves and ' Butch ' Gulick, Jack Harlan and lit- 
tle Murray, * Billy' Woods and 'Bob' Hunter, *Ben' But- 
ler and * Billy ' Langdon, good old Stewart and all the rest 
of them, don't exist anywhere. 

" At our last class dinner back in '89 I think — in Dohm's 

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hall — ' Butch ' Gulick thought I had gained sufficient success 
in one line to entitle me to get up and * gab.' Our school 
was successful. It was located at Sing Sing. A great place 
to get lost to the world in for more than one ambitious soul. 
But it was a pleasant spot for five years of my life, and I got 
in some good work for Princeton there. 

'' Six or seven boys were sent down from the Mt. Pleas- 
ant Military Academy at Sing Sing as a result of a lifting 
hand from M. Taylor Pyne and the Glee Club, (^larter 
Back Morse was one of them. Professor Dahlgren of the 
Princeton Scientific Institution was another." [Scoville, Baird, 
Hubbard, and Smithers also went from Mt. Pleasant.] 

Leute taught for the first ten years after graduation, first, 
at Chillicothe, Missouri, then at Macon, Mo., and next at 
Sing Sing. His experience with the New York Public 
School System he thus describes : 

" Later I was in New York City, in public school life. 
I got a whole lot of experience, a trunkful of testimonials, 
and my first insight into one of the preserves of city politics. 
* Got a pull?' 'No.' * Got dough?' *No.' * You're nit. 
Git!' 

*' In 1884 I fished out of the trunk a couple of notes 
Acting Mayor George B. McClellan, '86, wrote for me, and 
the consequence is I have been located here in the Custom 
Service for the last ten years. So here's to Mac and his 
success." 

Leute says that one of the ways he has changed since 
graduation is coming to the conclusion that *' pull " beats 
** push." 

He married in 1886 on September ist, at Princeton, N. 

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J., Miss Lillie M. Berrien, daughter of Scott and Anna E. 
Berrien, and he has five children. Lilian, 15, Cecil, 13, 
George, 11, Harold, 8, Marjorie, 2. 

His favorite leisure occupation is " teaching a mixed grade 
school at home." 

And his ** fixed habits" are '* watching Jack Harlan's" 
"fixed habit" of gunning for the mayoralty prize in Chicago, 
and "keeping tab on Princeton's chance of landing the foot- 
ball championship." 

He belongs to the Philadelphia Law Academy and Young 
Republican Club of Philadelphia. 

Leute writes : 

" And so you're going to get the boys together again. 
What a treat ! That'll be as near heaven as the most of us'll 
ever get. 

" Yes, sir, there'll be there *Spot' Morris and ^ Jane' Harris, 
* Davy ' Look and ' Johnnie ' Poe, * Alec ' Moffat and ' Char- 
lie ' Winton and all the fellows who made us famous in fresh- 
man and sophomore years. 

" How real it all is ! Each fellow is to come in out of 
the wet, up to the fire of the festive class hearth, where good 
cheer and fellow feeling are so bright and warm, and have 
eager hearts drink in his story. 

" It will shake off the Rip Van Winkle flock-by-yourself 
spirit. No man can be a howling success all alone. 

" So here's a bumper of good liquor from the '84 bowl ! " 

The Editors of the Record wish that they had more letters 
from the boys written in this spirit. It stirs one like a rous- 
ing old college cheer. With sons like this no one can ques- 
tion the vitality of '84. 

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ALVIN F. LEWIS, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. (J.H.U.), 

PROFESSOR, BOWLING GREEN, KY. 

Lewis has followed teaching as a profession since leaving 
college. 

In 1884-85 he taught in a preparatory school in Ken- 
tucky. In 1885—87 he was adjunct professor in the Univer- 
sity of Arkansas ; 1887-89, professor in West Florida State 
College; 1889-92, graduate student at Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity; 1892-97, president of West Florida State College. 
He then went to Germany for further study, and, returning 
in 1899, he occupied the chair of History and Political Sci- 
ence in the University of Arkansas. In 1901 Lewis's health 
broke down, and he was compelled to cease work for awhile. 
He is now convalescent, however, and in the fall will assume 
the duties of teaching again. 

With such a busy career, it is no wonder Lewis has not 
found time to get married. 

DAVID M. LOOK, 

DRY GOODS COMMISSION BUSINESS, JAMES TALCOTT, I08-IIO FRANK- 
LIN STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

*Dave' Look entered the wholesale house of Sylvester, Hil- 
ton & Company on September lo, 1884, and remained there 
till January 23, 1885, when he went with James Talcott, 
Dry Goods Commission Merchant, and he has remained with 
him ever since. His business address his 108 Franklin Street, 
New York City, and his house address 34 West loth Street, 
New York City. 

He was married on April 27, 1892, in Albany, N. Y., 

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to Mariana Townsend Reed, daughter of Mrs. Joel R. Reed. 
There were several classmates at the wedding. Look has two 
children — Edward Townsend Look, aged 6, and Mariana 
Look, aged 4. 

He has had no titles, degrees or honors, but has filled one 
commercial position — that of Director of the Merchants' 
Safe Deposit Company. 

He is a member of the following clubs : Princeton Club,, 
Union League Club, University Club and Merchants' Club. 

As Dave passes in silence the questions ot a more personal 
character, his classmates must be contented with the facts as 
given. It is evident from these that he is happily fixed in 
life and contented with the way that the world has treated 
him. 

AYRES D. LUNDY, A.B., A.M., 

ENGINEER, RAILWAY EXCHANGE BUILDING, MICHIGAN AND JACKSON 
BOULEVARDS, CHICAGO, ILL. 

Lundy was for two months after graduation in the Edi- 
son Machine Works in New York, and then went to Hazle- 
ton, Pa., as an electrician of the Edison Electric Illuminating 
Company, where he completed his first year in the " wide, 
wide world." 

He then took a purely electrical course in Cornell for 
two years. In June, 1887, he went to Chicago to work for 
Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company, his business 
being the superintendence of the construction of Sprague Elec- 
tric Railways. He became chief engineer of Sprague Elec- 
tric Equipment Company, Chicago, in 1888; was District 
Engineer for Southern States of Edison General Electric Com- 

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Please give a Complete Record since Graduation. 



I. Present business address ."Z*?. C^.. 

Name of firm or company 
Your residence V^.v:.*?.... 




Name of wife 

Name of her parents i^l.-^-^(^u. 

Any classmates present at wedding. 
Name and ages of any children... 



3. Give the various steps in your business or professional career. 




4. Please give details regarding fcfllowing : — 

Any degrees, titles or honors you have received 

/??.Jl.Z^>7z^^z/'/;^__. 




Any office or position, public, semi-public, political, military or commercial you 
have filled— 




5. Have any of your writings been printed or published. Give complete list with date 

„ ^.^^^^i3r:::^<5?:sr... 

AYRES D. LVNDY 




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6. Of what societies, clubs, Boards or organizatjims of ^any ^kind have you been a member 







7. If you are not married, what apologies have you to offer.. 



8. What is your fondest ambition. 



.iTa....i<^^... 




9. What personal achievement in the past twenty years has given you the most satis- 
faction 



10. In what ways do you think you have^hanged since graduation 

22^a...M.Q^.r^^ (M^.u 

11. What accomplishments have you 




12. Have you any fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they.. 

•-^?^Z^r*=^ 




13. What is your favorite leisure occupation.. 



14. What social pleasure do you most enjoy //n4i<^^.r:.^f^-J^7:7^n^i^^ _ 

15. What is your ideal of perfect contentment. -.//-^.ydti^^^2^1,<<?^..l 




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pany from i 890-1 891, and since 1891 has been a member 
of engineering firm of Sargent & Lundy, which firm has been 
extensively engaged in street railway and other construction 
throughout the country. 




AYRES D. LUNDY 



He received his A.M. from Cornell in 1887. 

Lundy was married on August 8, 1888, to Miss Mary 
Thompson, in Topeka, Kansas, to whom he had become en- 
gaged in his junior year at Princeton. He has one daughter, 
Esther. 

Lundy is a member of the following clubs : University 
Club of Chicago, Princeton Club of New York, Suburban 

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Club of La Grange, Country Club of La Grange. He has 
also been La Grange School Director for six years. 

Lundy was the mainstay of Howell's church when How- 
ell was in Chicago. 

He has written some articles on electrical subjects. His 
" fondest ambition " is to "beat bogey " (but we don't think 
he will, unless he plays better than he did when we last saw 
him). 

He says " he plays the pianola superbly " (and so he does). 
A combination of golf, novel-reading, and smoking make 
up his favorite leisure occupations. 

THOMAS J. McCORMACK,A.B., A.M.,LL.B., 

WRITER AND TEACHER, PRINCIPAL TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL, LA SALLE, 
ILLINOIS. 

The further development of his mental faculties seems to 
have been McCormack's aim since leaving college, and his 
writings mentioned below show that he has attained his aim. 
He has devoted himself to the refinement of reasoning, philos- 
ophy and science, and to aid him in that pursuit he has stud- 
ied the foreign languages so as to obtain at first hand the pro- 
ducts of the best minds of Europe. 

At first McCormack associated himself with the "Open 
Court," a scientific and philosophical journal of Chicago, and 
became one of the editorial staff. He has also been assistant 
editor of " The Monist,"a quarterly magazine devoted to the 
philosophy of science. While pursuing these duties and still 
in search of knowledge McCormack studied law in Chicago 
and graduated with LL.B. This was for purposes of educa- 
tion, however; not for a means of livelihood. He kept on writ- 

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ing and teaching and is now the principal of La Salle and Peru 
Township High School. 

Of McCormack's attainments in the realm of higher knowl- 
edge and pure reason you may judge for yourself from the list 
of his writings : 

Author o± numerous articles and fugitive reviews in the 
"Open Court" and *'Monist." 

Editor of a series of "Philosophical Classics," 1903; 
of a " Mathematical Series," 1903. 

Translator of the following w^orks : 

Binet's "Psychic Lifeof Micro-Organisms," i 889-03; Bin- 
et's"Double Consciousness," 1 890-03; Mach's"Scienceof Me- 
chanics," I 893-03; Mach's "Popular Scientific Lectures," i 895, 
03; Weismann's "Germinal Selection," i 896-03 ; Elmer's "Or- 
thogenesis," 1898-03; LaGrange's "Lectures on Elementary 
Mathematics," 1898-03; Schubert's "Mathematical Essay and 
Recreations," i 898-03; Topinard's "Science and Faith," i 899- 
03 ; Delitzsch's "Babel and Bible," 1 902-03 ; Cumont's "Mys- 
teries of Mithra," i 902-03; Mach's"Theory of Heat," i 902-03. 

Some of the articles he has written are as follows : 

On the Nature of Scientific Law and Scientific Explana- 
tions. The New X-Ray in Photography. Euler, Lagrange, 
Monge, Descartes, Pascal, DeMorgan. The Year Zero, a 
Brief Study in Chronology. 

Meantime McCormack has found time to be married to 
Nancy Montrose Hume. They have five children : 

Joseph Hume, aged 10; Thomas Hallowell, aged 8; Jes- 
sica Fremont, aged 6, and Edward Howell, aged 4 years. 

He is a member of the American Philosophical Society 
and the American Mathematical Society. 

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BURR McINTOSH, 

ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER, 18 WEST 33RD STREET, N. Y. CITY. 

The editors of the Record had been looking forward 
eagerly to the receipt of a letter from Burr Mcintosh. We 
knew that the communication would be as original and enter- 
taining as the writer. We were disappointed, however, in the 
letter, though Burr has done his duty well as far as the ques- 
tion blank is concerned. In order that his classmates may 
miss none ot the flavor of his responses, we print his contri- 
bution in facsimile. 

It will be remembered that Burr was a man ot many tal- 
ents and rich in original resources. After graduation he tried 
business for awhile, but his natural gifts for entertainment and 
his strong instincts for sociability were bound to lead him into 
some form ot public life. 

He adopted the stage as a profession in 1885, and it was 
only a few seasons when he became one of the best known 
of the younger American actors. Perhaps his most distin- 
guished achievement was the character of Taffy, the English- 
man, in '* Trilby." Burr's fine presence, rich voice and 
varied talents carried him very quickly into public favor. His 
stage career was successful without exception, whether he 
appeared, as originally, in minor roles with Helen Barry or in 
leading roles with Nat Goodwin and various stock companies. 

In addition to his stage work. Burr was a prominent figure 
in the affairs of the Lambs' Club of New York, and in the 
actors' baseball games, where he was always to be seen proudly 
parading the orange and black. This little act was an index 
of Burr's character. Throughout his public life he has been 
and is at all times a loyal and devoted son of Princeton, and 

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Please give a Complete Record since Graduation, 



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I. Present business address fr^i.Q ~^.: 

Name of firm or company k^L^^v^^jArx/^.. 

Your residence a^--s<vryrr^....."^rr?r:^. /ir^r^CT^JU-.. 



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2. If married, s;ive date and place . \A~m— ^^-jl-- vSj Xy^ ^, l^v-i,-*- '-^>— i ^-v. 

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Name of wife .0r>::v:^r5e..? \^'rr^^^^rr>Jr>A...LKJ..{^TAr:^r^r^^ 

Name of her ^aTents....^^-.^.....Jrfr:^::^.....Or>T^. ':^~...C'::::^^r^i^r*^^.....'^^r:^rrr:^.. 

Any classmates present at wedding /"^fT^Tv^ .'r^r^rri.':^ «-r^. 'Y^. 

Name and ages of any children .v«<^^.<sJr:yr^^^rr?:r:r.....<?>^:>rnrr!^~^ 



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3. Give the various steps in your business or professional career. j 




4. Please give details regarding following : — 

Any degrees, titles or honors you have received S^^ ..jr^»r-A-^. 



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Any office or position, public, semi-public, political military or commercial you 



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5. Have any of your writings been printed or published Give complete list with date 



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6. Of what societies, clubs, Boards or organizations of any kind have you been a member ^f 



7. If you are not married, what apologies have you to offer. iy-.OrT>^.....'^^^^^7^^. .^^''"xr""^ 

Fcsv- SX, C)JH5i*..-:x-:^..'^^ <x^....'^-:'>r''f:->X^ ^r-:^-^^:^^^ ^':^^.. — ^-^^^'^^ 

'8. What is your fondest ambition J. i f ■":^...1Q> <jw-)^ U5j-f>j— -r-^— ,^>!i^ 

Lr..r^ ^. .X«-<«;^.L.,^ 

9. What personal achievement in the past twenty years has given you the most satis- 
faction ^^T^X) %J^^^. <>>r:^ !!^^:^..-.....<=^r^:rS?Sr../r^rr:^^ *:pj....'^_ 

10. In what ways do you think you have changed since graduation, 5S^ '?^::?-:r^^^fO.... '-''~~-'-'*^ 

11. What accomplishments have you .V\r"S>r«VS'. *r;^..../?::r!r^^^.... 



12. Have you any fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they.i 

13. What is your favorite leisure occupatioa.t ?^:::?tr^rf?^r■V'^<"r^... •. ,. „ 

14. What social pleasure do you most enjoyj...^^^^ccrr?*T^:i?r:?../::?^^ X-^r^-^ ^ 
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has always been prompt in responding to the voice of his 
Alma Mater wherever it was heard. He is usually on hand 
at reunions and Princeton Club meetings, and on occasions 
when good fun and entertainment are wanted he plays a star 
role. 

His latest enthusiasm is photography, and it will be seen 
from the answers he has made to what extent this enthusiasm 
has absorbed him. He is no longer the man of affairs, the 
actor or the entertainer. He is " America's Leading Photog- 
rapher," and his ambition is to be America's leading photog- 
rapher and America's leading playwright forever. This ambi- 
tion assumes a place of importance in his soul, with the thought 
even of ** Her." Those of Burr's classmates that are married 
may have a comment to make on this. They will be apt to 
note that Burr has not yet married *' Her," and they may 
observe that when he does " She " may change all his ambi- 
tions and enthusiasms. 

Rev. R. GORDON MACKAY, A.B., LL.B., 

CLERGYMAN, MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BROOKLYN, L. I., 
330 47TH STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 

After being graduated at the Union Theological Semi- 
nary, in 1887, he went to Newport, R. I., and organized 
there the First Presbyterian Church of Newport, which is 
now a prosperous church. He is also a member of the bar 
of New York State. 

On October 4, 1898, he was married to Miss Bertha 
Hancock Clark, of Utica, N. Y. They had one child, who 
died at the age of one year. 

The personal achievement which has given him greatest 

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satisfaction is " stumping the State during the Roosevelt 
campaign." 

In the spring of 1899 Mackay accepted a position as 
assistant pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church in Brook- 
lyn, and since that time he has devoted himself to the mission 
work of that church in the Southern District of that place. 

Mackay says he has changed considerably since leaving 
college ; has gained fifty pounds in weight, lost his cynicism 
(we never noticed he had any to lose), has better health, a 
good appetite, and is a splendid sleeper. He sends this message 
to his classmates : 

" I desire to convey my best wishes to all my classmates 
and renew my allegiance to dear old Princeton, especially the 
class of '84. I hope to be present at the reunion. As I get 
older I lind mvselt warming toward Princeton more and 
more, and am proud of the success and honors which have 
come to her men." 



FREDERIC D. McKENNEY, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, 131 7 F STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 

Fred McKennev's report is printed in facsimile herewith. 
It tells his story pretty thoroughly, and we have no letter from 
him that adds any facts to this. 

Fred McKenney was present at the fifteenth reunion of 
the class in 1899, and it was observed at that time that he 
made mysterious general observations on the subject of mar- 
riage. His tone was light and facetious, and calculated to 
direct suspicion away from himself. This attitude of mind 
is easily recognizable by all married men as a sign of change 

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Please give a Complete Record since Graduation. 




1. Present business address 
Name of firm or company 
Your residence -^^. 

2. If married, give date an J" place 
Name of wife 
Name of her parents 
Any classmates present at wed(Img 

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Name and ages of any children 



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3. Give the various steps in your business or professional caree 



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4. Please give details regarding' following : — 

Any degrees, titles or honors you have received 




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Any office or position, public, semi-public, political, military or commercial you 



have filled.. 



5. Have anv of your writings been printed or published. Give complete list with date 




FREDERIC D. MC KENNEY 



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what societies, clubs, Boards or organizations of any kincL have v'ou been a member 



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7. If you are not married, what apologies have you to offer 




What is your j^ndest ambiti on.i^ irig ^ 
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12. Have you any fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they.. 

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of heart, and the suspicions aroused in the minds of several of 
his classmates by Fred McKenney's elaborate carelessness of 
manner in regard to matrimony were confirmed within a 
month, for on July i oth of that same summer he was married 
to Miss Elizabeth L. Handley. 

Fred has always been a faithful attendant at the reunions 
of the class, and is a devoted son of '84. We wish that he 
could have given us a letter in his usual agreeable manner. 
His answers to the regulation questions are, however, full and 
satisfying. 

R. FULTON McMAHON, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, 54 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

" Practicing law in New York city." That is very ex- 
pressive and comprehensive, but it don't give much detail for 
our Record, nor does it even suggest the wide field of Mc- 
Mahon's usefulness. He has been rich in many good works, 
personally, politically and religiously. Of a man's personal 
benefactions the world will never know, especially of such a 
man as McMahon. It is pure chance that we happen to have 
personally information regarding one or two instances of most 
helpful charity. 

Of McMahon politically we may find out more, for he has 
been in the front rank of those engaged in reform politics in 
New York city. He was prominently identified with the Good 
Government Club movement, the Committee of Seventy, and 
with the crusades of the City Club against municipal corrup- 
tion. 

At our last class dinner Job Hedges had great fun with 

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MacMahon, whom he termed "The Purist in PoHtics." Then, 
speaking seriously, Job remarked, " He has done things which 
few of us would have the principle or the courage even to at- 
tempt." 

In January, 1900, he was the counsel for the City Club 
in its prosecution of charges against the Tammany District 
Attorney, Asa Bird Gardiner, who was subsequently removed 
by the Governor. When he preferred the charges the full 
power of Tammany was directed against McMahon. 

In order to save their official, a trumped-up charge was 
preferred in the police courts against his accusers. McMahon 
voluntarily demanded the most searching investigation, which 
resulted in a persecution running for several weeks. The press 
vigorously denounced this method of terrorism ; the ring was 
fought to a stand-still ; McMahon was fully vindicated, and 
all charges against him were dismissed. 

McMahon has also been very active as representative of 
the Sabbath Observation Committee, devoting a large amount 
of time and money to this good work. 

Meantime, he was also conducting a Mission Sunday- 
school, with over one thousand scholars. 

As though all this were not work enough for one man, 
Mac has devoted his leisure ti*me to the study of the languages, 
in which he has become very proficient. This he has turned 
to a practical account in the study of the Roman law and that 
of France and Spain. He has worked out some intricate cases 
concerning property rights in the Spanish-American countries. 

When the War Revenue Law of 1898 was passed, Mc- 
Mahon, in collaboration with E. L. Heydecker, published a 
book on the subject. 

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ALBERT McMillan, 

OCCUPATION AND ADDRESS UNKNOWN. 

All search for recent and definite information regarding 
McMillan is fruitless. 

About the only thing we can find is that he entered the 
United States Army as an enlisted man. The records of the 
War Department show that he enlisted in Troop E, 7th Cav- 
alry, August 15,1887. Thereafter he served in the follow- 
ing grades: Corporal, Sergeant, ist Sergeant and Sergeant 
Major. He was discharged at Fort Riley, Kansas, Septem- 
ber 2, 1892, by reason of expiration of service, a private. 

These records further show that on December 29, 1890, 
he participated in the Battle of Wounded Knee, South Da- 
kota, and received a medal of honor for bravery in action. 

Kennedy, when in the West, took occasion to look up 
McMillan. 

He writes regarding his inquiries as follows : 

'*In 1890 (I think) Albert W. McMillan was 1st Ser- 
geant in the 7th Cavalry United States Armv, and distin- 
guished himself for bravery at the Wounded Knee Indian 
outbreak i:i South West Dakota. 

'' In fact, after the trouble, one of his superior officers 
spoke to me in the highest terms of Mac's bravery and cool- 
ness. He was a fine soldier and a fearless rider. I am strongly 
of the opinion that if he was living at the time, he in all 
probability served in the Cuban or Philippine wars." 

The War Department say there is no record of his re-en- 
listment after his discharge in 1892, and that they have no 
knowledge of his present whereabouts. 

As to the medal of honor, it may be said that they are 

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very rare, and are only awarded in very exceptional cases. 
We have heard it said that Kennedy and other friends of 
McMillan's made strong efforts to obtain for him the privi- 
lege of an examination for a commission, which McMillan 
passed with high grade, but other things prevented the com- 
mission being awarded. 

We have written to McMillan's family, and to many oth- 
ers for further information. We have even advertised in the 
papers without result. 

CHARLES T. McMULLIN. 

McMullin continued in Princeton for part of the year 
after graduation, then taught in a co-educational school at 
Pennington. He entered the General Theological Seminary 
against the wishes of his friends, to become an Episcopal 
clergyman. He left there in the spring of i 889, without fin- 
ishing his studies. He is now an invalid. 



H. W. MANNERS. 

Manners died during our college course (October 14, 
t88i). He was the only classmate, you will remember, in 
whose memory a flower was dropped on the roll-call at class- 
day. 

STARLING MARSHALL, A.B., A.M., 

RETIRED, HENDERSON, KY. 

Marshall became part owner of a newspaper in Hender- 
son, Ky., soon after graduation. The name of the paper was 

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the " Daily Journal." It was very successful and grew from 
a weekly into a daily in a few years. The firm in 1894 was 
Lynn & Marshall, proprietors and publishers. Marshall was 
elected trustee of the Henderson High School in 1887, be- 




STARLIXG MARSHALL 



came secretary and treasurer of the Henderson State Line 
Railway in 1889. Marshall expected to make journalism 
his life work, but was disappointed in his plans owing to ill 
health. He sold his newspaper interests and is now living on 
his farm a short distance out of Henderson. " Although at 
the present date I am still unmarried, I promise that this re- 
proach shall have been removed from my record before I am 

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called upon for another class record ; more definite informa- 
tion I am not now at liberty to give. Trust to be with the 
boys at the next session." 

Rev. J. E. MAXWELL, Ph.D., 

BEETHOVEN STRASSE, 10, LEIPZIG, GERMANY. 

At Princeton Theological Seminary and the Universities 
of Leipzig and Edinburgh Maxwell fitted himself for his 
special lines of work after quitting Princeton University. He 
is now pastor of the American-British Church in Leipzig, 
Germany. This is an undenominational and international 
church — a students' church, in fact — for the large numbers 
who flock to Leipzig for the University and the Royal Con- 
servatory, and is a social centre of the English-speaking col- 
ony. 

Mrs. Maxwell, who is deeply interested in her husband's 
work, was formerly Mrs. Sarah Knisby of Chicago. Their 
marriage took place on October i, 1895, ^^ ^^^ ^^^Y of Lon- 
don, England. They have no children. In response to the 
class letter Maxwell writes : " It did me good to have a word 
from a member of '84. It has been years since I have had 
the pleasure of meeting a classmate. I continue to have a 
hearty interest in my Alma Mater." 

**The Interior" of Chicago had an article in February, 
1903, on Maxwell and the American-British Church in Leip- 
zig, and thus refers to the work Maxwell is doing : " The 
first year or two abroad for the young man is a critical period. 
He experiences greater freedom and discovers a wider hori- 
zon. Not infrequently conceptions of God and of life once 

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cherished prove under new conditions inadequate. The pastor 
(Maxwell) by the lead of the Spirit has tried to give help in 
such cases, to keep the young mind from casting aside the 
substance of his faith, to assist him in replacing old and in- 
adequate conceptions with those of higher and larger and 
nobler character." 

Since the above was written Maxwell has been called to 
the position of assistant to the President of the University of 
Wooster, Ohio. He assumes his duties there this year. 



ARTHUR M. MILLER, A.B., A.M., Fellow of Geo- 
logical Society of America. 

PROFESSOR, STATE COLLEGE, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY. 

Miller taught school four years in Ohio, his native place, 
and in 1888 came back for a P. G. course at Princeton. In 
this year he was elected the Class of 'j^ University Fellow 
in Biology. He spent the summer of 1888 working with 
Phillips, '84, and McClure, '88, at Wood's Holl in the Fish 
Commission laboratory. In 1889 he was appointed profes- 
sor of biology, geology and astronomy at Wilson College, 
Chambersburg, Pa. After two years at Wilson he was at the 
summer school at Avon with Professor McCloskie in charge 
of the biological department. Spent the winter of 1891-92 
at the University of Munich, Germany. Since his return 
from Germany he has been professor of geology and zoology 
at the State College of Kentucky. Miller has contributed 
various articles upon geology to the scientific magazines ; he 
is not married. Says he neglected his opportunities during 
the " impressionable period." His favorite leisure occupation 



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ARTHUR M. MILLER 



is looking after a little country seat of 13^^/^ acres known as 
Maxwelton. If you want to pass a delightful evening drop 
into Professor Miller's library, but don't suggest whist or 
chess unless you are prepared, for Miller's a *' crack" at those 
games. 



EUGENE MILLER, A.B., A.M., 

LIFE INSURANCE, N. Y. LIFE BUILDING, KANSAS CITY, MO. 

On leaving college Miller took up teaching. He estab- 
lished the Louisiana Female College at Shreveport, La. He 
also conducted a Teachers' Bureau, and in his leisure (?) hours 
pursued the duties of editor of the Baptist Chronicle. In 

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1896 he became professor of English language and literature 
in Kansas City University. 

Miller was married December 29, 1884, at Bowling 
Green, Ky., to Marie N. Van Meter, daughter of Dr, S. K. 
Van Meter. Alvin Lewis assisted at the ceremony. He has 
an interesting family, two daughters and one son. He just 
missed getting the class cup because his girl was not a boy. 
His children are: Marie Kirk, age 18 ; Walter P., age 16, 
and L. Cessna, age 14. 

In answer to our question as to whether he has occupied 
any high positions, he replied with pride, " head of the fam- 
ily." We don't credit this statement, for later on we asked 
him what he regarded his highest achievement, and his answer 
was : " My wife at my elbow says it was my marriage ;" and 
when we asked, " What accomplishments have you ? " he said, 
** My wife dictates ' none.' " 

He says he has not changed much, except to become gray 
and bald-headed ; that he loves the pleasures of home and 
family, and is glad to find a little time to read and study and 
write on his hobbies. We are sorry we could not get a list 
of these, but we did not happen to find any one who knew, 
and Miller answers us with characteristic modesty: "They're 
of no importance." 



FRANK H. MILLER, B.S., 

CARRIAGE MANUFACTURER, 713-15 SOUTH MAIN STREET, CINCINNATI, 
OHIO. 

Miller is engaged in manufacturing carriages and has been 
ever since he graduated. 

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On Tune 6, 1886, with the able support of Jelke, Hedges 
and Todd, he was married at EUzabeth, New Jersey, to Miss 
Julia Glasby. Their daughter, Miss Gladys, is now 15 ; their 
son Donald Glasby is now 14 ; and they have another daugh- 
ter, Fredericka, aged 6. 

He is a member of the Cincinnati Automobile Club ; of 
the Sons of the Revolution and of a Shooting Club. He 
attends and is a member of the Westwood Presbyterian Church. 
He writes : 

'* I should love to be with you all in June, but that is my 
busy month, so don't expect me." 

Dr. IVAN DEMETER MISHOFF, A.B., A.M., M.D., 
LL.D., 

PHYSICIAN, 413 GOLDSMITH BUILDING, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. 

After graduation Mishoff went through the Seminary at 
Princeton, then took a medical course at Rush College, Chi- 
cago, to equip himself as a medical missionary. 

Mishoff, our theologian doctor, at the date of our last 
record in 1889, was on his way with his wife Laura Raush, 
whom he hadmarriedinMayof that year, to hishome, Lootcha, 
in Bulgaria. He remained in that country for over a year as a 
medical missionary. Since that time he has devoted him- 
self, with success, to the practice of medicine in Milwaukee. 
Among the articles he has published is one, copies of which 
we hope he will have on hand for our reunion. It is entitled 
*' Physiological Action of Alcohol." He says that since his 
graduation he has " grown better natured and better looking 
than milhousey 

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Mishoff is a member of several societies, among which 
are: 

American Medical Association ; Wisconsin State Medical 
Association ; Milwaukee Medical Association ; F. A. M.; K. 
P.; R. G. E.; I. O. F.; A. O. U. U., and I. O. G. T. 

He has one child, a daughter, Williard, of seven years. 
His idea of contentment is " to be busy all the time at one 
thing or another." 

ALEXANDER MOFFAT, C.E., 

IRON AND STEEL WORKS, I52— 154 WEST 34TH ST., NEW YORK CITY. 

In reply to your circular letter asking for a contribution 
of wit and wisdom to the Class Record, I wish to say that I 
never shone as a wit and was never remarkable for my wis- 
dom. 

*' My present business address is with the Cooper, Wigand, 
Cooke Company, i 52 West 34th Street, New York City, with 
which Company I have been connected for over a year past. 
We are manufacturers of cast steel and engineers and contrac- 
tors for structural and ornamental steel and iron work for the 
fabrication and erection of steel structures. I am a Director 
in the Company, and have very pleasant business associates, 
two or three of whom are Princeton men, I being manager 
of sales of our steel-casting department, our foundry plant 
being situated at Delawanna, N. J. 

" My business experience since graduation has been a rather 
varied one, and with only a modest degree of success. When 
first graduating I went into the pottery business in Trenton, 
but, having been prepared by my course as a civil engineer 

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and post graduate course in electrical work for electrical en- 
gineering, I soon tired of the pottery business, and for about 
two and one-half years went into electrical work, being em- 
ployed by the Bentley-Knight Electric Railway Company, of 




ALEXANDER MOFFAT 



which "Joe" Blackwell and his brothers were the controlling 
spirits, and spent some time in Allegheny City, Pa. 

" After this Company was absorbed by the Thompson- 
Houston Electric Company, about the fall of 1889, I con- 
nected myself with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufac- 
turing Company, in their New York office, as selling engineer, 

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and remained connected with them for some two and one-half 
years. After this connection I was employed by the H.Ward 
Leonard Company, and again by the New York Electric Equip- 
rnent Company, in electrical work and the specific line of sell- 
ing equipments for plants in New York city and immediate 
vicinity. This continued until the year of 1896, when I en- 
tered into a partnership with another Princeton man, Conrad 
Hewitt, '88, and engaged in the taking of contracts for lire- 
proof floor-construction work, and eventually branched out 
into a general contracting and building concern, which part- 
nership lasted until a little over a year ago, when the oppor- 
tunity of engaging in the steel business with the new depart- 
ment of an old concern and becoming interested in the Com- 
pany was offered, and since then, as stated above, I have been 
connected with this concern. 

"In 1895 ^ married Miss Madeline S. Spratt, who was a 
native of Toronto, Canada, although at the tiine I knew her 
she had been living at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. We were 
married at the home of her sister in Toronto. She was the 
daughter of a Mr. Robert Spratt, an old citizen of Toronto. 
We have no children, and our present place of residence is 
at Mamaroneck. Our highly respected class president, Wil- 
liam Stewart Tod, was my best man at the wedding. So 
much for the bare, cold facts. 

" As far as my social life goes, I take the greatest pleasure 
in going to the Princeton Club of New York City, where 
I meet the bovs, and especially take pleasure in meeting the 
fellows of our bully old class who frequent that social 
resort. 

" My old athletic davs have passed from me, and although 

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I kept up my interests in outdoor games and sports for a 
number of years after college, I have not had the time nor 
the opportunity to do more than play a very " dufferous " game 
of golf, and probably will shock some of our ministerial 
friends, such as Brother Howell and ''Pous " White, by stating 
that I only have the time to play the ancient and noble game 
on the Sabbath day. This does not seem to interfere, how- 
ever, with my enjoyment of it. 

" I am looking forward with a great deal of pleasure to our 
reunion in June, and sincerely hope that nothing will arise 
to prevent my turning up and spending a few days in Prince- 
ton, when I hope to see all the old fellows, some of whom 1 
have not seen for twenty years. 

*' With most sincere greeting and affection for all the fel- 
ows. 



WILLIAM D. MOFFAT, A.B., 

PUBLISHING, CHARLES SCRIBNER's SONS, I53 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. 

'' The twenty years since graduation have meant to me, so 
far as employment is concerned, one thing alone — the pub- 
lishing and selling of books and magazines. A few months 
after we sang our last song about the old cannon in the back 
campus I landed in the cold world in the shape of a book clerk. 
I loved the business, and I have stuck to it ever since. I have 
been connected with the publishing-house of Charles Scrib- 
ner's Sons — a thoroughly Princeton house, by the way — for 
eighteen years, and my business address is in the Scribner 
Building, at 153 Fifth Avenue. My present occupation is 
the business management of the two periodicals published by 

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the house, " Scribner's Magazine" and "The Lamp." It is 
my purpose to remain in the pubHshing business for good 
and all. I do not think that I could be happy in any other 
kind of work. I have my home on my native soil, the State 




WILLIAM D. MOFFAT 



of New Jersey, where I spend my leisure hours chasing the 

elusive golf ball. 

'* Following in order the line of your questions, I would 
say, first of all, that I was married on August 15th, 189S. 
The wedding was private and no classmates were present. 

" There is little to say about the " various steps in my busi- 



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ness career." It would mean simply a record ot work in the 
different departments of a publishing-house. 

'* I have received no degrees or titles, and the only honors 
that I can point to are six silver golf cups that represent a 
series of successful achievements through the "fair green." I 
may mention in this connection, merely as an aside, that I 
am willing to meet any member of the class at any time, on 
a fair handicap basis, for ''a ball a hole." 

** I have not filled any public, political or military offices. 
As far as writing is concerned, I plead guilty to a few offences. 
These, however, were published a number of years ago, and 
may be classed among the indiscretions of youth. My clean 
record for the last five or six years ought to atone for this ; 
moreover, I might say in extenuation that when I wrote my 
stories I needed the inoney very badly. I was, however, like 
the literary sinner of old — I went "from bad to verse.'' Hap- 
pily, I discovered before too late the error of my ways, and 
I have since been trying bravely to live it down. 

" I am or have been a member of a number of city and 
country clubs of New York and vicinity, including The 
Princeton Club, The Players, The Calumet, The New York 
Athletic, The Aldine Association, and the Hackensack and 
Englewood Golf Clubs ; but, though living in a great 
centre, I very seldom see any of my classmates. Ambrose 
Todd and Rowland I have occasionally seen, and once in a 
while I get a glimpse of Gayley. Of course, I see Job Hedges 
at times. Everybody sees Job in New York, but from his 
eminence on the rostrum, or at the speaker's table at public 
dinners, I know that he does not see me. I have often en- 
vied Job's self-command and easy speech, and I have often 



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wished that I could free my mind of thoughts that have har- 
dened it for a long time, with equal wit and eloquence. It 
is a satisfaction to me to see one of my classmates doing such 
good, strong work in public life, and helping with his ready 
tongue to *' scorch the scorpion scandal in his lair." When 
our old college mate of '86, George McClellan, is through 
with being Mayor, I hope Job will have a chance at it. I am 
sure that when he gets it his first act will be the presentation 
of the " freedom of the city " to the boys of '84. 

'' My fondest ambition, I believe, is to be successful in 
a clean way. Such achievement as I have made in the past 
twenty years that hasgiven me satisfaction has been in the nature 
of occasional small contributions toward the kind of success 
that I want. I do not know that I have changed very much 
since graduation, except that I don't know half as much as I 
did then. I came very near knowing it all then. I very soon, 
however, forgot most of it, and this left my mind with a vast 
amount of echoing space in it which I have since found use- 
ful for other purposes. I have no accomplishments that I can 
think of except very good direction in my "drive " and a very 
accurate " short approach shot." I have no good nor bad hab- 
its, I think. I have plenty of habits, but they are neither 
good nor bad — they are just plain habits. My favorite leisure 
occupation, of course, as will be inferred from the foregoing, 
is golf, and the social pleasure that I most enjoy is going over 
the day's score with some good golf friends in the evening. 
I have never formulated an ideal of perfect contentment. I 
know when I am contented, and I consider health, con- 
genial work and home happiness most desirable things in 
life. My hope is to enjoy them all indefinitely, and my 

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most cordial wish for all classmates is that they shall enjoy 
them too." 

CHARLES L. MOORE, 

LAWYER, GEORGETOWN, DEL, 

Moore left college in Freshman year and studied law. 
He is now practicing at the above address. Further infor- 
mation was not obtained. 

HENRY J. MORRIS, 

RETIRED. PHILADELPHIA CLUB, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

Morris is not in business, and has therefore had no steps 
to climb. He is not married, and makes this apology, " those 
whom the gods love they destroy ; I have so far escaped the 
love of the gods." He is a member of the Philadelphia Club, 
Princeton Club of Philadelphia, and also of New York. His 
most satisfactory achievement is that he has ridden some good 
steeple-chases and owned one or two good horses. His fond- 
est ambition is a successful and honorable reputation. For 
Morris's report of himself read the facsimile opposite. 

HENRY C. MUNGER, 

IMPORTER, MOORE AND MUNGER, 99 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK CITY, 
NEW YORK. 

Left in Junior year and entered a publishing house in New 
York. He is now a member of the firm of Moore and Mun- 
ger, importers of finest English China clays. He is unmar- 
ried and lives at home with his parents, in Plainfield, New 
Jersey. He writes : *' I certainly do not wish to be ' the last 

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O N 



Please give a Complete Record since Graduation. 



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1. Present business address 

Name of firm or company... I!^ 

Your residence 

2. If married, give date and place 

Name of wife 

Name of her parents 

Any classmates present at wedding 
Name and ages of any children 



3. Give the various steps in your business or professional career. 






4. Please give details regarding following : — 

Any degrees, titles or honors you have received.. 



Any oiEce or position, public, semi-public, political, military or commercial you 
have filled .- — 

5. Have any of your writings been printed or published. Give complete list with date 



HENRY J. MORRIS 
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6. Of what societies, clubs, Boards or organizations of any kind have you been a member 

7. If you are not married, what apologies have you to offer \}^J[. ^'^^^^^^.^^-T^a-c-e^ : — 

8. What is your fondest ambition 

9. What personal achievement in the past twenty years has given you the most satis- 

faction c^ Jxj3iMyrr^....r2:i.QLdjui^ <=iy>y3^ .(^f^?'y^<....'?r^er?^r)^...^:*:?7e^ 

ID. In what ways do you think you have changed since graduation 

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II. What accomplishments have you 



12. Have you any fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they 

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13. What is your favorite leisure occupation (fL^r..' 



14. What social pleasure do you most enjoy i..U^.c<<r;CC« 

15. What is your ideal of perfect contentment iAr..3..hf:id£.....</l...Sl/:?0^: ?5^...^^??:?-^-= 



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man who makes the trouble,' but the topic you propose for 
me to write about is so uninteresting that it is hardly worth 
while. I am blessed with more friends than I deserve, 
have an abundance of social pleasures, am in good health and 
altogether feel that my lines have fallen to me in pleasant 
places." 

JOHN C, MURRAY, A.B.,. A.M., LL.B., 

I, ERNEST AN-D-feRAMNER.B.ULLDIN«, DENVER, COL. 

At number 1639 Ogden Street, in the ''Queen City of the 
Plains," lives an '84 man, who, by his ability to climb Canal 
Street hill in time for morning chapel, gave early promise 
of being a mountaineer. His chief delights are in riding 
bronchos among the ''Rockies" and in being distinguished 
by the appellation of "Plain John Murray" where almost 
everybody is called "Judge." 

On the 20th of September, 1900, Miss Harriet Steele, 
daughter of Dr. Henry K. Steele of Denver, became his life- 
partner. Their children are "a gentleman's wish" — Henry 
Steele Murray, aged two years, and Miss Julia Fanning Mur- 
ray, who is eighteen months younger than her brother. They 
have a beautiful home, where Princeton men in general and 
'84 men in particular may always find the hearty welcome 
and solid hospitality of " Murray." He says the social pleasure 
he most enjoys is "a quiet dinner with a few good friends," 
and he wants all his classmates to think of this when they 
pass his way. 

Unable to live in the East because of ill health, John went 
to Denver in 1890. He "didn't know" he "was climbing 

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any steps" since then; but, like the journey to his home in 
the West, his ascent has been sure and substantial. A person 
who knew the facts recently described him as one of the law- 
yers of Denver. As an elder in the Central Presbyterian 
Church of that city (from which he sends moderators to the 
General Assembly), as a Sunday-school superintendent and 
teacher of a Bible class, as a prominent member of the Prince- 
ton Club of Denver and of the law firm of Dimmitt & Mur- 
ray, 720 Ernest and Cramner Building, and as one of its solid 
successes, the class may picture him living close to his ideal 
of perfect contentment — *'a country home, books and some 
church work." 

Murray says that his fondest ambition is to be a preacher 
or a home missionary. When he has taken millions from 
one of the mines out there, which he is going to do some of 
these days, there would be no objection to his occupying the 
latter position toward some of us, who have more poverty than 
he and more worldly aspirations. 



WILLIAM L. NASSAU, A.B. 

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, 8 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

For the first two years after graduation Nassau was en- 
gaged in the manufacture of patented articles in Delaware. 
He then entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad and 
has gone on from clerk to paymaster, then to superintendent 
of grain depot, and now is record clerk at the grain desk. 

One of his greatest interests in life is music. Several of his 
musical compositions have been published and he is director 
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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

His success in his organ study and musical work, both tech- 
nical and theoretical, has given him more pleasure than any 
other achievement and his ambition is to be a musical doctor 
Oxon. or Cantab. Mrs. Nassau was Miss Marie Maree, a 
musician prominent in Philadelphia. They were married on 
January 8, 1889, ^^ Christ Memorial Church, Philadelphia, 
and have two children, Mary Elizabeth and W. L. Nassau, 
Jr. A concert was given on March 16, 1899, i^^ Alexan- 
der Hall, Princeton, by Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Nassau. The 
Alumni Princetonian says, '' While in college Mr. Nassau was 
noted for his musical ability and since his graduation he has 
maintained as high a standard as an organist in the city of 
Philadelphia, where he is probably best known as a musician. 
His wife is also a musician of the highest quality and is ranked 
as one of the leading soprano voices in the city." 

J. HOWARD NEELY, A.B., A.M. 

LAWYER, MIFFLINTOWN, PA. 

From September '84 to January '86, Neely taught school, 
studying law at the same time. He was examined and ad- 
mitted to practice in Mifflintown on July 26, 1886, and in 
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1888. He was a mem- 
ber of the law firm of Patterson & Neely from i 887-1 892, 
since which latter time he has practised alone. 

He was District Attorney of Juniata County, Pa., from 
1891-1894. 

He was married on December 31, 1 891, at MifBintown, 
to Miss Ella K. Banks and has five children: 

J. Howard, Jr., November 22, 1894; William Hamlin, 

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J. HOWARD NEELY 



February 2, i 896; Helen, December 27, i 899; Margaret Banks 
and Elizabeth Banks, twin girls, September 21, 1902. 

In answer to the question as to his ideal of perfect con- 
tentment, Neely says : " As directed to me, this question is a 
misfit. It partakes too much of metaphysical refinement. 
Let Jim Baldwin step up and answer." 

He is a Freemason — 32^. He has a pleasant home and 
a most interesting family. The aspect of his home, of his 
office and of his own portly presence when last we saw him 
at Mifflintown all indicated happiness and prosperity. We 
were told that he has a large practice and is an important 
factor in politics in that part of the State of Pennsylvania. 

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J. MC BRIDE NICHOLS 



Rev. J. McBRIDE NICHOLS, A.B., A.M., 

CLERGYMAN, MARKET SQUARE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA, 
PA. 

It is easy to tell where Nichols' heart is. The opening 
sentence of his letter tells that and what his ambition and 
ideal is. 

Speaking of his church, Nichols calls it a "fine com- 
pany" and "firm" as a rock. 

He was married on May 9, 1889, to Miss Louise Lan- 
sing Smith, daughter of E. Willard Smith, at Washington, 
D. C. Chester was present at the wedding. He has no 
children. Nichols taught at York Collegiate Institute, York, 
Pa., from 1884 to 1886; was at Union Theological Semi- 
nary from 1886 to 1889; pastor of First Presbyterian Church 

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at Nyack, N. Y,, from i 889 to i 893, and of the Market Square 
Presbyterian Church of Germantown, Pa., since he left Nyack. 

This letter was received from him in January, 1903: 

'* Your letter to the class indicates that you are laying 
hold of time by the fetlock in your preparation for the Re- 
union in 1904. But an event of that kind is worth antici- 
pating a long while. The picture of 1884, taken at our De- 
cennial, hangs framed in my study in a most honorable place 
above the Prophets. I hope that a similar photo, as good if 
not better-looking, and as representative, may be taken a year 
from now. If I am within striking distance of Princeton at 
that time, and not under engagement to bury some parish- 
ioner, I shall be on hand, of course. As a class, we need not 
hang our heads, so far as appears at present. No one of us 
has been electrocuted or elected to Congress, I think. Sorry 
that I can give no information regarding the missing men. 
It is impossible for a man to get lost in Philadelphia; he can't 
move fast enough. I am completing iny tenth year in this 
charge, to which fact I attribute neither our municipal cor- 
ruption nor our national prosperity." 

Mr. Nichols says his fondest ambition is to " keep from 
getting bald." He is also a follower of the great Izaak and 
of Dr. Van Dyke in his love of fishing, and his favorite 
leisure occupation is "planning for more leisure." He be- 
longs to no clubs — "black-balled every time," he says. 

Replying to the question of honors or degrees, he says he 
has "never been suspected, even." He is twenty pounds 
heavier than he was in college and "not quite so green," and 
as for accomplishments, he has " more than will ever be ex- 
hibited to an unsuspicious world." 

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Dr. ARTHUR W. OLCOTT, A.M., A.B., M.D., 

PHYSICIAN. 54 NORTH STONE AVENUE, TUCSON, ARIZONA. 

Dr. Olcott graduated from the St. Louis Medical College 
and began the practise of medicine in St. Louis, Mo. 

He is now out in the great Arizona Desert, seeking 
health for his wife. 

He has a son 9 years old, " who is an ardent admirer of 
our Alma Mater, and already talks of what he will do when 
he goes to Princeton." 

Dr. Olcott writes that he will come East this summer, 
and hopes to be at the June reunion. 



Rev. smith ORDWAY, A.B., A.M., 

CLERGYMAN. SODUS, WAYNE COUNTY, NEW YORK. 

Ordway is a Presbyterian minister at Sodus, New York. 
In the fall of our Graduation Year he entered the Princeton 
Seminary, but left that Institution in the following spring for 
the purpose of completing his preparation for the ministry at 
the Auburn Theological Seminary. 

In Mav, 1888, he was married at Owasco, New York, to 
Sara D. Parsell, a daughter of David Parsell and Catharine 
A. Bevier. Our friend Howell helped to maintain the cour- 
age of Ordway at the ceremony. Ordway's only child, 
Katherine Gretta, is now i 2 years of age. 

In his ministerial life, Ordway has been conservative and 
methodical, as was his inclination as an under-graduate with 
us. He was admitted to the Presbyterian Ministry in 1888, 
and is now in his fourth parish. 

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When asked if he has any fixed habits, he declares that 
everything about him is fixed ; and gives as his ideal of con- 
tentment, "Doing the will of God." 



CHARLES FREDERICK PARMLY, A.B., A.M., 
LL.B., 

LAWYER. 

The New York " Herald " of August 23, 1903, gave the 
following account of the sudden and sad death of Parmly : 

" Charles Fred Parmly, a lawyer of 76 William Street, 
who lived with his father. Dr. Ehrick Parmly, at the old 
Bingham place just off the Rumson Road at Seabright, N. 
J., fell down a seventy-five-foot well on Friday night, and was 
instantly killed. Mr. Parmly went out to the barn without 
telling anyone of his intentions, and descended the well to 
make some slight repairs. There is a platform about sixteen 
feet from the top, on which a ladder was resting ; instead of 
lashing it at the top, as had been done on previous occasions, 
Mr. Parmly descended without taking that precaution. It is 
supposed the narrow ladder turned with him. The body 
was found forty-five feet from the top resting on a second 
platform thirty-five feet above the water." 

Parmly had already responded to the appeal of the class 
secretary, and had sent in his record in January, 1903. He 
studied at the School of Mines, Columbia, New York City, 
after leaving Princeton, and became an electrical engineer. 
He was in the electric-light business in 1887, and went to 
Cuba to superintend some electric light works there. After- 
wards he studied law, and was a practising lawyer with an 

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office at 76 William Street, New York, at the time of his 
death. 

He married Miss Emily Brown Neilson, the daughter of 
Mr. Theodore G. and Mrs. Catharine Bayard, on November 
14, 1889. Albert Taylor was present at the wedding. 

They had two children, Theodore Neilson, i 2, and Ehrich, 
6. His ideal of contentment was a happy home, and being 
at home was the social pleasure he most enjoyed. His fond- 
est ambition was to get back to the reunion. It is a matter 
of personal grief to each one of us that he will not be 
there. 

The class adopted the following minutes upon his 
death : 

It was with deep sorrow that we, the members of the Class of '84, 
heard of the accidental and untimely death of our classmate, Charles 
Frederick Parmly. Earnest, unassuming, making no great preten- 
sions, yet ever sincere and faithful, as a classmate in college days he 
won our respect, friendship and affection, and since then with the same 
genuine qualities he lived a manly life in his home, with his associates 
and in his chosen profession. His was not a nature to lead him into 
the rougher contests of the law, yet his staunch loyalty to friend and 
client, his uprightness and honest endeavor won for him a respected 
position at the bar, and only those who saw him in his home can fully 
know the great loss sustained there by the death of that straightfor- 
ward, loyal and affectionate son, husband and father. 

Resolved, that we extend to our classmate's family our profound 
sympathy in their bereavement, and 

Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent by the Secre- 
tary to his family, and that they be pubHshed in the Alumni Weekly. 
(Signed) Leonidas Dennis, 

on behalf of the Class of '84. 



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HENRY N. PAUL, 

LAWYER. FRALEY AND PAUL, BROAD AND CHESTNUT STREETS, PHILA- 
DELPHIA, PA. 

Harry Paul studied law immediately after graduation, and 
was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1886. The firm of 
Fraley and Paul was formed in January, 1896. In 1903 the 
firm of Paige, Paul and Fraley was formed. Paul's practice 
is chiefly patent law in Federal Courts. His residence is at 
Graver's Lane, Chestnut Hill, Pa. 

Paul was married at Yonkers, N. Y., in January, 1889, 
to Margaret Crosby Butler, daughter of William Allen But- 
ler and Mary Butler, and a sister of George P. Butler of '84. 
Dave Look, Kelly Prentice, and Jim Robinson were present 
at the wedding. 

Paul has seven children, as follows : Theodore S. Paul, 
I 3 years of age ; Mary R. Paul, i i years of age ; John R. 
Paul, 10 years of age; William A. B. Paul, 8 years of age; 
Samuel H. Paul, 7 years of age ; Arthur Paul, 5 years of age ; 
and Henry N. Paul, Jr., 3 years of age. He is a member of 
the University and Princeton Clubs of Philadelphia, and the 
Manager of the Presbyterian Hospital, and the Union Benev- 
olent Society, both of Philadelphia. 

J. WARNE PHILLIPS, B.S., Sc.M., Sc.D., 

PROFESSOR CHEMISTRY, STATE UNIVERSITY, RENO, NEVADA. 

It is too bad not to have some recent and authentic in- 
formation from Phillips. We know he has done well, and 
are sure there must be matters new and important to record. 
We have not, however, been able to get any responses from 

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him, or anything from others, beyond what is recorded 
below. 

After we left college Phillips went on in postgraduate 
study in the Biological and Palaeontological Departments un- 
der Professors Osborn and Scott. In 1889 he went with the 
Princeton expedition, under Professor Scott, into Oregon, 

Later he was appointed to the Chair of Chemistry at Ne- 
vada State University, and later was appointed chemist to the 
State Board of Agriculture. His address was Reno, Nev. 

So far as we know, he is still filling both of these positions, 
and his address is still the same. At any rate our letters do 
not come back unclaimed. 

■ CAPTAIN S. JOHNSON POE, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, JOHN P. POE AND SONS, lOO EAST LEXINGTON STREET, BALTI- 
MORE, MD. 

" After a somewhat long-drawn-out delay I am at last an- 
swering your many letters and more postal cards, for I don't 
want to bankrupt my class on postage and first, I shall answer 
the questions on the blank sent me a year ago, which I have 
most carefully treasured in my safe ever since." 

He ansv/ers our questions as follows : 

** I. My present business address is 100 Lexington Street, 
Baltimore^ Maryland, in the firm of John P. Poe and Sons, 
composed of John P. Poe, 1854; Edgar A. Poe, 1891, and 
Neilson Poe, 1897, ^^^ myself. 

My residence is 1021 St. Paul Street. 

" 2. I was married to Miss Laura L. Cromwell on January 
2, 1900, at Frostburg, Maryland; thermometer registered 10° 
below zero. 

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" No classmates were present at the wedding. Her father 
is Dr. Benjamin M. Cromwell, and her mother was Miss 
Louise Burwell of Winchester, Virginia. 

" We have one son, now three years and three months old, 
named John Prentiss Poe, 3d. 

*'3. After leaving College I attended the Law School of 
the University of Maryland and graduated from there in 
May, 1887, third in my class— this, none of my classmates 
are forced to believe — and I have been at the above business 
address ever since, working at law. 

" 4. I have not had any honors, titles or degrees forced 
upon me and have been too modest to seek them, but I was 
appointed in June, i 899, by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore 
City, one of the Auditors of the Equity Courts and succeeded 
in that position a Princeton man of 1854, who had died. 

*' In the militia I have been more fortunate and after nearly 
twenty years in the 5th Maryland Regiment of Infantry, I am 
now holding the rank of Captain and Adjutant and have held 
this position since the spring of 1898. In the Spanish-Am- 
erican War I went with my regiment south and was in camp 
at Chickamauga, Tampa, and Huntsville, but saw no service 
and only accumulated a fund of information on how to be 
comfortable in camp and a case of break-bones fever which 
lasted me a couple of years — I mean the effects of it — but I 
can't prove this as I never put myself in a sick report while 
serving the United States and was only too glad to give the gov- 
ernment a receipt in full upon being mustered out of service. 

" 5. The only writings I have had published are letters for 
the Class Records and perhaps you will have appreciation 
enough of this to include it in the list. 

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** 6. I am or have been a member of the following clubs and 
societies : Baltimore Cricket Club, Baltimore Country Club, 
Catonsville Country Club, Baltimore Athletic Club, Bachelors' 
Cotillion Club ; Junior Cotillion Club ; Journalist Club ; 
Baltimore Club ; Cottage Club, Annapolis ; University Club, 
Annapolis ; Army and Navy Club, New York. 

*' 7. My fondest ambition is to see my boy distinguish 
himself at Princeton both mentally and athletically. 

'' 8. (Achievement). Being married to Mrs. Poe. 

"9. Almost the only way I have changed is a growing 
distaste to engage energetically in exercise and a little gray 
hair — otherwise, I am about the same plus thirty pounds. 

''10. I can neither sing nor play, though I do dance occa- 
sionally and am sure I look best when on horseback in full 
regimentals. In this position the length of my legs is not ap- 
parent to a casual observer. 

"II. All my fixed habits are good. I have only to fight 
the floating ones. 

*' I 2. Reading. 

''13. A good theatrical production or perhaps I would 
give the preference to a dinner with congenial friends. 

*' 14. Being at home w4th my family before an open lire." 

ATLEE POMERENE, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, CANTON, OHIO. 

Pomerene was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School 
in 1886 and won the prize in forensic debate. 

He has been very successful in his profession. In the 
words of the Canton "News Democrat," "he is recognized 
as one of the leading attorneys of Eastern Ohio." 

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He was elected City Solicitor in 1887, and served several 
terms in that capacity and also as prosecuting attorney. 

He was a member of the law firm of Miller and Pomer- 
ene for some years. The firm is now Shields and Pomerene. 
In 1900 Pomerene ran for Circuit Judge in the Fifth Judic- 
ial District. The newspapers of the day thus characterized 
him : " No Attorney is held in higher regard by his fellow 
practitioners than he is. As a public servant he was fearless 
in the conduct of his office and won for himself many words 
of warmest commendation. A splendid lawyer, and an affa- 
ble gentleman, he combines with these qualities a well-poised 
mentality that eminently fits him for the position he seeks at 
the hands of the voters of the circuit." 

As was subsequently said in a Canton paper, "It is too bad 
that so clean and capable a candidate was not chosen." 

Pomerene made a reputation for himself in the prosecu- 
tion of the case of Miss George, the person who shot Presi- 
dent McKinley's brother-in-law. 

Those who remember Pomerene in college and who 
heard his address at our last class dinner are not surprised 
to see a statement like this which we quote from " The 
Evening Repository" of Canton, Ohio, December 17, 
1903: 

The most dramatic incident that has been seen in Stark County 
for many years was the plea of Attorney Atlee Pomerene. All the 
spectators' sympathies were so worked upon by the distressing situa- 
tion pictured that their tears witnessed the sympathies they felt. At 
the close of the speech there was scarcely a person in the Court room 
who had not given some signs of emotion. In the jury box there was 
scarcely a juror who did not give way to tears. 

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Pomerene was married June 29, 1892, to Miss Mary A. 
Brockius. 

He has no family. He is a member of the P. B. O. E. 



Rev. da COSTA POMERENE, A.B. 

The Rev. Da Costa Pomerene, with a dozen others, was 
killed in a railway collision at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 
1892. The two sections of the Western Express crashed 
into each other in the early morning of June 25th. Mr. 
Pomerene was living when carried to the hospital, but died 
soon afterward. He was a graduate of Princeton Theologi- 
cal Seminary and had had charge of a church in Salem, Ohio. 
After he left Salem he was engaged with the Presbyterian 
Board of Publication in Philadelphia. He was partially blind 
and was but 32 years old when the sad and terrible accident 
occurred which took him away from his active work. 



ROBERT KELLY PRENTICE, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, 52 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. 

" The events in my life for the last twenty years of in- 
terest to my college classmates are in brief as follows : 

'* After leaving Princeton I entered the Columbia Law 
School and the law offices of my father and later of Honor- 
able Nathaniel C. Moak at Albany. I received the degree 
of LL.B. at Columbia in 1886, taking second prize, and was 
admitted to the New York Bar in June the same year and 
at once entered upon the practice of the law which I have 

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continued to date. I received the degree of A.M. at Princeton 
in 1887. I spent the early part of 1890 in Southern Europe 
and on my return formed a partnership with my father, which 
still continues, with offices at present at 52 Broadway. [The 
firm name is W. P. and R. K. Prentice.J 




ROBERT KELLY PRENTICE 



"In 1892 I enlisted in Squadron A, N.G.N.Y., was de- 
tailed thence as aide-de-camp to Governor Roosevelt, Janu- 
ary I, 1899, to May 15, 1900, and then promoted as aide- 
de-camp to Major General Roe with the rank of Major, 
which position I still hold. 

"In 1 90 1 I married Miss Carolyn E. Benedict, daughter 



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of Mr. James A. Benedict, of this city, and have one 
daughter. 

" I am at present a member of the Ivy Club of Princeton, and 
the Princeton Club of New York, also of the Century, Union, 
Republican and City Clubs and the Bar Association of this city. 
Sons of the Revolution and National Rifle Association, and a 
Director of The Globe and Rutgers Fire Insurance Com- 
pany and The Stuyvesant Insurance Company of this City. 

'* The heights of fame and fortune are still before me, but 
I am grateful to Providence for many blessings and for some 
measure of that success which generally rewards persistent 
labor." 

JOSEPH H. REED, 

4721 CALUMET AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. 

Reed left college in Freshman year. He has not been 
heard from since. His home at that time was Cairo, 111. A 
friend there tells us he has left Cairo and settled at the above 
address. Letters sent there bring no response, but are not re- 
turned. x\lton and some of the Chicago fellows have tried 
to find him for us without success. 

ALFRED G. REEVES, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, 55 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

Reeves is now a professor in the New York Law School, 
a partner with Ambrose Todd and Alexander Rowland and 
others in the law firm of Reeves, Todd & Swain, and the 
author of several books and treatises on legal subjects. 

Reeves, the professor, writer and authority in certain 

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branches of law, is the logical development of the man we all 
knew in college. He has developed along the same lines 
which he followed before entering college and during his col- 
lege days. In college this unostentatious, quiet chap, soon 
came to be recognized as one whose knowledge was compre- 
hensive and accurate — who did his work so thoroughly that 
he was soon among the leaders and never lost his rank. 

Leaving Princeton, he entered the Law School at Colum- 
bia College, New York City, which school was then pre- 
sided over by Hon. Theodore Dwight whose method in teach- 
ing law has become known as the Dwight method. Reeves 
quietly took his place among his fellow students, but all, both 
students and professors, soon saw that here was a man of solid 
attainments. In class a question seldom passed him ; students 
in doubt referred questions to him, and when the course was 
completed it was conceded he was easily in the van and so to 
him in i 886 was awarded the prize Tutorship. This he filled 
with such credit that he was not released after two years' ser- 
vice but was retained as instructor and junior professor. The 
faculty at Princeton also appreciated his good work after leav- 
ing college and chose him to deliver the master's oration in 
1887. In I 889 the method of legal instruction at Columbia was 
changed and a new institution known as the New York Law 
School was formed to continue the use of the Dwight method 
of instruction in the law. Reeves was offered the chair of 
Real Property and Wills in the new institution and he holds 
it to-day. His clearness of thinking giving clearness of ex- 
pression, his dry humor and his tact have made Reeves a 
marked success as an instructor. But he has not been content 
to follow this one line of work. He has gone into his sub- 

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ject with depth and study, and has written a work on the Law 
of Real Property entitled, " Reeves on Real Property." This 
book has received the most favorable notices from Professor 
Gray of Harvard and the leading law journals. 




ALFRED G. REEVES 



He has also written a book on the subject of wills entitled 
"Cases on Wills." He is also author of the law articles in the 
International Encyclopedia, and of a pamphlet entitled " A 
Note on New York Express Trusts." 

So substantial and widely known has Reeves' work been 
that he is now a recognized authority on the law of Wills and 
Real Property throughout New York State. He has also 

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turned his knowledge to account in the practice of his proies- 
sion as the head of the hrm of Reeves, Todd and Swain, hav- 
ing offices at 55 Liberty Street, New York City. His func- 
tion here has largely been in the preparation of briefs and the 
argument of appeals. His reputation brings to him so many 
important cases that he is a respected and well-known figure 
in the Appellate Courts of New York State. 

Fromour acquaintanceof collegedaysweshould lookfor a 
broad development on Reeves' part. We should have expected 
him to become just as good a father, citizen, and a Christian and 
a business man as he was a lawyer, and that is what we find. 
If you will step into his handsome home at No. 148 St. John's 
Place, Brooklyn, and see Reeves in the midst of his family and 
enquire of his neighbors and fellow church members, you will 
find that in each situation he is recognized as a strong man, of 
broad and substantial views, whose advice is worth follow- 
ing. 

In 1898, December 25, Reeves was married at Millville, 
N. J., to Miss Josie B. Tucker, daughter of Joseph and 
Martha Tucker. 

They have two children, Raymond Gladstone, aged 14, 
and Martha Tucker, aged 7. 

Colonel WILLIAM FREDERICK REYNOLDS, 

BANKER, BELLEFONTE, PA. 

When Reynolds left Princeton, he went into the bank- 
ing house of W. F. Reynolds & Co., at Bellefonte, Pa. He 
worked at banking with great devotion, adding to it several 
other interests — the manufacture of flour and the supervision 

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of sixteen highly cultivated farms in 1889, which have now 
grown into about three thousand acres of the best land in 
Centre County. He is also at present a Director of the 
Pennsylvania Match Co., First National Bank, Bellefonte 
Fuel and Supply Co., Potter Hoy Hardware Co., and 
Providence Engineering Works. 

Reynold's uncle died in 1893, ^^^ ^^^^ ^i"^ ^ large for- 
tune. 

Beside the great number of business affairs to which he 
attends, he is actively interested in Church and State. He 
is one of the Board of Missions of the Diocese of Central 
Pennsylvania, and delegate to the General Convention ot the 
Protestant Episcopal Church. 

He is honorable Councilman of his municipality, but his 
chief public interest is in the National Guard of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

The following is a clipping from one of the military 
journals : 

One of the best-known officers in the State of Pennsylvania is 
Major W. Fred Reynolds, Ordinance Officer on General Wiley's 
Staff (Second Brigade). He is, however, more generally known as 
Colonel Reynolds, having served for many years on the staffs of the 
several Commanders-in-Chief His pracdca] and thorough knowledge 
of military matters was best demonstrated at Camp McKinley, where 
he was Acdng Provost Marshal. By his systematic and careful in- 
strucdon of the guard there was little or no disorder in the town of 
Somerset, which the writer knows from conversadon with some of the 
representadve cidzens, who thoroughly appreciated the good work. 

The Bellefonte Armory was erected by Colonel Reynolds for 
Company " B " of the Fifth Infantry, at an expense of $35,000. 

It is without excepdon the handsomest and most substantial 

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company armory in the State, and stands out as a monument to the 
donor. 

On July 13, 1893, Colonel Reynolds was appointed Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel and Aide-de-Camp on the staff of the Commander-in- 
Chief, and reappointed March 23, 1895. His commission expired 
January 18, 1899. He was made Captain and Adjutant of the Fifth 
Regiment Infantry on September 9, 1899. He resigned March 21, 
1900, and was appointed Aide-de-Camp with the rank of Lieutenant- 
Colonel on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, February 15, 1901, 
and subsequently to the present position. 

He has a wife and two sons. He is an active member 
of the Sons of the Revolution, a Knight Templar, a Thirty- 
Second degree Mason, and Past Commander of Constans 
Commandery. 



WILLIAM C. RION. 

Rion died at his home, Winnsboro, S. C, in April, 1889. 
The following clipping from the '* News and Courier " tells 
the sad story : 

William C. Rion 

The Sad Death of a Promising Young Carolinian 

It will be sad intelligence to a great many Charlestonians and other 
South Carolinians to learn of the death of Mr. William C. Rion, of 
Winnsboro. He passed away, after a protracted illness, at his home 
last Saturday night. In regard to his death the Winnsboro " News and 
Herald" says : 

" For more than a year he has been a great sufferer, and has been 
confined to his home since the 28th of March. Mr. Rion was a young 
man of marked brightness and ability, and would have risen rapidly 

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in his chosen profession — the law — in the practice of which he has 
been engaged since the death of his distinguished father, the late Col- 
onel James H. Rion. Possessed of many of those traits which attract 
men, he leaves besides a widow and two children, many warm friends 
to mourn his death. His remains were interred in the Presbyterian 
Churchyard on Monday. 

Mr. Rion was well known in Charleston, having been here re- 
peatedly on business, and his friends will be pained to learn of his sad 
death. He was educated at Davidson College, in North Carolina, and 
also at Princeton College." 



JAMES J. ROBINSON, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. (Yale), 

PROFESSOR, NEW HAVEN, CONN. 

"Your notices for something from me for the class his- 
tory have followed me about and finally reached me here. 
My address on your record is Yale University. I left there 
some time ago, and went abroad for further European study. 
Returning home, I went to Hamilton College, Clinton, N. 
Y., and remained there two years. I then went back to 
New Haven to finish up some book work I had in hand. 
From there I came up to Lakeville, Conn., where I am now 
residing temporarily. So you see I have been something of 
a wanderer, and doubtless many of your notices never reached 
me. At any rate, my peregrinations have sadly interfered 
with my correspondence, and I must humbly beg indulgence 
at your hands. 

"You want some personal matters for the record. My 
life has not been as widely written in the public prints as 
many of our men of '84 (say, e. g. Job Hedges et al.) I 
have led a strictly private existence, and have been thoroughly 

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occupied with my own affairs. You ask tor the greatest 
achievement of my life — an easy question and quickly an- 
swered — it was my graduation from Princeton College, and 
that ought to be the answer of every man who has won a 
Princeton sheepskin, and accomplished anything tangible since. 

*' After graduation I went to the frontier of Montana to 
see something of the West. I was appointed Professor at the 
College of Montana at Deer Lodge, where I attempted to 
instruct the natives in the classical tongues, at the same time 
making valuable contributions to my own knowledge of 
American and Cayuse French. One of my neighbors out 
there was Nancy Lee, '84, of Helena. It was while experi- 
menting on these good-natured mountaineers that I deter- 
mined to follow the professorial career. I therefore pro- 
ceeded to New Haven to begin the study of Classical Philology 
and work with Whitney. So far as I can discover, no man 
before this time had ever thought it possible to make a com- 
bination of Princeton and Yale learning with any advantage 
to himself. 

" After study in Germany and further study at Yale, I 
obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Yale in 
1888. Aside from the advantage of working with eminent 
Yale Professors (who could not be matched elsewhere), I 
obtained this decided advantage by being a graduate of both 
Universities : I could eat all the Princeton dinners and all 
the Yale dinners which came my way, and hear the pleas- 
ant things said of Yale at Princeton affairs, and vice versa, 
beside paying dues to both associations. It was a strange 
combination at the time, but it is one which I have ever 
found valuable, i. e., after the narrow prejudices of under- 



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graduate enthusiasm wore off. After this graduate prepara- 
tion for the work of teaching, I was Latin master in several 
schools, and among others the Shady Side Academy, which 
has sent so many fellows to Princeton. 

" While there I was called to Yale and to the University 
of Chicago within the same week. I went to Yale and served 
as Instructor of Latin and Roman Law for seven years. It 
is needless to say that football animosity does not penetrate to 
faculty circles, although President Dwight always delighted 
to gather Professor A. Guyot Cameron (then at Yale) and 
me together before his guest, President Patton, and show 
what Yale climate could do to tame down Princeton tigers. 

" While at Yale as officer of the faculty, my duties as 
class-officer brought me in close relations to the undergradu- 
ates, and it gave me an opportunity to grow thoroughly fa- 
miliar with the Yale spirit (something of which Princeton 
had no counterpart when '84 was sent out into the world), 
and to estimate closely the relative advantages of undergrad- 
uate life at the two colleges. 

** I early specialized in my study of Roman law and legal 
institutions, and gave elective courses in this subject for sev- 
eral years at Yale. I then went abroad again to pursue these 
studies in German Universities, meanwhile working on a book 
entitled ' Selections from the Roman Law,' being an attempt 
to put Roman law from original sources before students ot 
Latin, whether contemplating the future study of law or not. 

" As for my own personal aspirations, having chosen the 
unremunerative calling of the college professor, my ambition 
is to be a thorough scholar in my own field and to be an ef- 
fective teacher. If I have any ability worth mentioning, it is 



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as a teacher. There I have had some success and very much 
pleasure. I realize after twenty years of experience in the 
world, that the work of a teacher is to teach and see to it 
that his work is done effectively. There has been and is still 
so much superficial and half-done work in this direction. 
That college has the best claim for the attendance of thought- 
ful students, where the individual professors have the force to 
get the work done. May the New Princeton be among the 
leaders in this regard ! 

*' As for personal data : My residence is New Haven, 
Conn. I was married December 22, 1896, to Miss Anna 
Waring, daughter of Richard S. and Jane D. Waring, of 
Pittsburg, Pa. We have two children, Howard Copland, 
aged 4 years, and Louise, aged 2 years. 

*' We have both been much abroad, and I may say that 
my chief delight is in the music of Germany. My chief 
recreation is music and some of the outdoor sports. My own 
ideal of contentment is to have plenty of hard work on hand, 
and spend my summer vacation traveling abroad, or settling for 
the time in one of the musical and art centres of the old world. 

" If you ask me in what ways I have changed since grad- 
uation, I must answer in almost all ways, except my waist 
measure. My whole appreciation of books, music, art and 
social accomplishments has come since then. I still dislike 
a snob as much as I did then, and I have fought hard to keep 
from being one. I like good fellows. I like my club — the 
graduates at New Haven. During all these years since I 
went there, I have valued the warm genuine friendships 
formed there, and they have helped me. Unfortunately, 
very few of my classmates have lived where I have lived. 



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After the renewal of acquaintance with many I have not seen 
since June 20, 1884, at our twentieth anniversary, I hope to 
keep closer in touch with them. When I read of the mag- 
nificent records which some of our '84 men have made, I 
feel that my life has been very retiring and unproductive — 
but, I comfort myself slightly with the thought that I am 
helping to train up a second generation of '84 men (perhaps 
some of them even sons of my own classmates) to enter upon 
life, if possible and so far as in me lies, even better equipped 
than we were at our graduation. 

*' I have held no public offices. I am a member of the 
American Philological Association, have been elected an hon- 
orary member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, have been a mem- 
ber of several clubs, social and athletic, among others the 
University Club of Pittsburg, the Reform of New York, 
The Graduates and Lawn of New Haven. Aside from the 
work mentioned above, in process of publication, I have pub- 
lished some articles and reviews in educational and learned 
journals. I have spent several semesters at German Univer- 
sities, especially at Leipzig and Munich, have studied in Italy 
and Paris. 

" I am going to make an especial effort to be present at 
the Anniversary next June. One day on the ground will be 
worth more toward getting acquainted with the fellows than 
a ton of letters, such as this garbled account. 

"With due appreciation of your diligence and patience 
in gathering this material, and with the assurance of my sin- 
cere regard, 

" I am yours most fraternally, 

*' James J. Robinson." 



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JAMES W. ROBINSON, 

PHYSICIAN, 402 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA, 

After graduation Jim Robinson entered the Jefferson 
Medical College ot Philadelphia, and after a three-years' 
course received the degree ot M.D. in 1889, and his life since 
has been devoted to his chosen profession. He is not mar- 
ried, and has no apologies to offer for the fact. He is a mem- 
ber of several organizations, including the College of Physi- 
cians, Academy of Surgeons, and the Princeton Club of Phil- 
adelphia. His fondest ambition is his profession, and the 
personal achievement that has given him the most satisfaction 
is work. He does not observe any changes in himself since 
graduation, and says that his accomplishments are as of old. 

To the question about his fixed habits, good or bad, he 
responds : '* Getting up early in the morning." We leave it 
to his classmates to decide whether this habit is good or bad. 
It seems to us, however, that the decision depends largely 
upon what a man does after he gets up. Robinson's favorite 
leisure occupation is horseback riding, and he enjoys any so- 
cial pleasure that comes his way. 

Now comes an apparent inconsistency in Robinson's an- 
swers. He says that his ideal of perfect contentment is sleep, 
and this lets in some light on his habit of early rising. It 
seems to us logical that }im regards getting up early in the 
morning as a bad habit, for surely a habit is bad that is con- 
trary to one's idea of perfect contentment. This ideal, as 
will be observed by one who reads the Record through, is 
shared by several of Jim's classmates, and we confess to a 
warm feeling of sympathy for it ourselves. " Sleep " is the 
answer of a number of '84 men to the question concerning the 

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ideal of perfect contentment. It comes to us with a softly sooth- 
ing sound, like an echo of '* Fafner's" voice in " Siegfried ": 
" Lasst mich Schlafen." 



WILLIAM LUTTRELL ROGERS, 

DIED, FEBRUARY I9, 1892. 

A career of great promise was cut off when Rogers died. 
Notwithstanding a hard struggle against ill-health, he had 
made a name for himself in the field of science. 

After graduation he took a Post Graduate Course, devot- 
ing himself to scientific branches with a view to becoming an 
instructor in that department. 

In December, 1886, he married Miss Constance Grand- 
Pierre, a grand-niece of the late Arnold Guyot. Later his 
health required him to go to Southern California, and he re- 
ceived a call to the Chair of Natural Science in the new or- 
ganized *' Occidental University " of Los Angeles. He needed 
a more northern climate, so he accepted a call to the Laurel 
Hall College of San Mateo, and also taught in the Young 
Ladies Institute of San Rafael. Shortly thereafter he received 
an appointment to preside over a government institution in 
the Sandwich Islands. While in California he prepared a 
very careful article on *' Glacier Motion," which was pub- 
lished in "The Bulletin" of the New York Geographical 
Society. Through the good ofiices of his friend. Professor 
Le Conte, he was tendered the Chair of Mathematics in the 
University of Colorado and the principalship of another in- 
stitution in Colorado, which his health compelled him to 
decline. He then sought health among the sands and pines 

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of New Jersey, where he died at Barnegat Park and was 
buried from the First Presbyterian Church at Princeton, 
February 21, i 892. 



ALEXANDER S. ROWLAND, A.B., A.M., Sc.M., 
LL.B., 

LAWYER, NO. 55 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

After teaching in the Preparatory School at Princeton 
for a number of years, Rowland in 1895 deserted Euclid for 
Blackstone, and went to New York City to study law. In 
1897 ^^ graduated from the New York Law School and was 
admitted to the New York Bar. He is now with Reeves and 
Todd at 55 Liberty Street. He married Anna Stoneman, of 
Albany, New York, in 1895, and resides on Brooklyn Heights, 
in Brooklyn, New York City. 



Dr. RAYMOND W. SHARP, A.B., A.M., M.D., 

45 HALSEY STREET, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, N. Y. CITY. 

Sharp was graduated from the Long Island Medical Col- 
lege. He entered actively into politics, and was a candidate 
for the Assembly from the seventeenth district of New York 
City in 1899. 

He writes: "I am still in the land of the living, and 
contributing my mite toward allaying the ills of humanity. 

" Time has not lessened, nor age changed my interest in 
the successes and achievements of Princeton in all its varied 
departments, but the demands and cares of my profession 
have so tied me down, that I may have seemed to be neg- 

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lectful toward my Alma Mater. Like the bad boy at school, 
I will promise to do better in the future." 

Sharp was married in 1893 ^^ ^ Baltimorean, and they 
have one little girl. 

RALPH SHAW, A. B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, 229 MAIN STREET, PATERSON, NEW JERSEY. 

Shaw entered Columbia Law School after leaving Prince- 
ton, completing the two-years' course there. He also studied 
during the same period in the law office of Davies, Cole and 
Rapallo, in New York. He became managing clerk in that 
office and remained with the firm until 1894, when he went 
into private law practice in Paterson, N. J. He lives at present 
at Little Falls, Passaic County, N. J., which is a short distance 
beyond Paterson. We cannot resist inserting here an anecdote 
that Shaw will, we are sure, appreciate as much as anybody. 
A man was overheard on a train not long ago saying that he 
lived at Little Falls, N. J., and when his friend asked him 
where Little Falls was, he said that it was on the other side of 
Paterson. '* My goodness ! " exclaimed his friend ; " you don't 
say ! I didn't know there was anything on the other side of Pat- 
erson ! " If Shaw lives there, however, we know it is all 
right. 

He was married in Harrisburg, in i 893, to Elva G. Mark- 
ley, daughter of Dr. George H. and Emma Snyder Markley, 
and his best man was George Etter. He has four children : 
Helen Cameron Shaw, 10 years of age; Ralph Shaw, Jr., 7 
years of age; Markley Shaw, 5 years of age, and Beatrice 
Stengler Shaw, 3 years of age. 

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In 1896 Shaw was appointed Assistant Prosecutor of Pas- 
saic County, N. J. He still holds the office, having been re- 
appointed in I 90 1. Like all the boys of the class, Shaw was 
asked if he had published any writings. His answer is definite 
enough: ''Not on your life." 

He is a member of the following organizations : Princeton 
Club of New York, Hamilton Club of Paterson, Benevolent 
Lodge No. 45, F. and A. M., Paterson, Little Falls Co. 1 194 
Royal Arcanum. 

He is very evasive in answering the question concerning 
his fondest ambition. He says that he has it all right, but 
that he will tell us only when he attains it. There has been 
no personal achievement that has given him notable satisfac- 
tion. " I try," he says, " to do my work from day to day as it 
goes along; with that I am satisfied." The only change he can 
note in himself is a disposition to take lite a little more seri- 
ously. He disavows any accomplishments and any fixed habits 
except smoking. His favorite leisure occupation is loafing, 
and the social pleasures that he most enjoys are ''little mid- 
night lunches." His ideal of perfect contentment is "sleep 
— dreamless sleep." 



HENRY HALE SLEEPER, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., 

CLERGYMAN, GRACE RECTORY, ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY. 

After graduation Sleeper went to the General Theologi- 
cal Seminary, New York. He became the assistant minister 
of Christ Church Parish, at South Amboy, New Jersey, i 887, 
and the rector of Grace Church, Elizabeth, December 10, 

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1888. He married Miss Anna E. Brown, in Cranberry, 
New Jersey, on June 8, '87. He has four boys : GifFord, 
15; Frank Dean, 13; Howard Atwood Kelly, 6; Henry 
Darrell, 43^ . The following is an account of his work in 
Elizabeth, taken from the New York '* Sun," of July 20, 
I 891: "When rector, Henry Sleeper came to Grace Church; 
it was then the weakest church in town; in debt, torn with 
dissension, its old frame building sadly out of repairs, and far 
from the centre of population. Within four months the debt 
was paid and then the rector cast about for a new site for the 
church. On East Jersey street, in the centre of the lower 
part of the town, were fifty city lots in one block of three 
acres. At last the rector got track of the owner and after 
several interviews with the manager a letter was prepared and 
sent to Mrs. Dean, the owner, asking for six lots for a new 
church site. Mrs. Dean was then in England. A long cor- 
respondence culminated in an earnest invitation from Mrs. 
Dean to the rector and his wife to visit England; they ac- 
cepted the invitation and Mrs. Dean resolved to present to 
the parish the entire block of fifty lots in trust forever for 
the benefit of the parish and community. The parish hall 
will cost $15,000 when ready for use. In addition to this 
Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, now the w^ife of Bishop Henry C. 
Potter, of New York, with her sons, is to build a guild house 
for Grace Episcopal Church ; the building when finished will 
have cost $65,000 and it will be known as the Clark Club. 
Dr. Sleeper is very much interested in Church Unity, noting 
the waste, dissension, and weakness of a divided church es- 
pecially in charitable work. His views on this subject have 
been widely published. He is a golfer, a Republican, a 

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member of the S. P. C. C. and a member of the Princeton 
Club of Union County. 

Dr. Sleeper is spoken of as one of the strong men in the 
Episcopal Church in New Jersey. 

AUGUSTINE C. SMITH, 

LAWYER, 31 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

It will be remembered that no Smith could survive in 
the fellowship of '84. One by one they deserted as A. Smith, 
B. Smith, E. Smith, etc., all fell away. '85 gathered them 
in and held them where we could not — so A. C. Smith gradu- 
ated with '85. Then he studied law at Columbia, New York 
City, and settled down to practice in that city, and he is still 
at it at the above address. 

He was married to Miss May Irwin, and they have three 
children. He lives up the Hudson and is a member of the 
Princeton Club of New York, where he is frequently 
found. 

BENJAMIN B. SMITH, 

ADDRESS UNKNOWN. 

Smith remained with '84 only during freshman year; 
then he dropped out of sight of his classmates, and no news 
concerning him has been received since that time. 

EVERETT L. SMITH, A.B-, 

REAL ESTATE, BROMLEY LAND COMPANY, BROAD STREET, TRENTON, 
NEW JERSEY. 

With Benson, Goodell and Rowland, " Everett " came to 
'84 from *' Tommy " Collins' Prep, school, at Princeton. He 

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graduated with the class of '85. For some time after grad- 
uation " Everett " was engaged in title-work with the local 
company at Trenton. He is married and for some years 
has devoted himself to the task of inducing the people 
of Trenton to build their houses upon lots which he has 
laid out upon the family estate, the " Fashion Farm," at 
Trenton. 



ELLISON A. SMYTH, Jr., A.B., A.M., 

DEAN OF VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, BLACKSBURG, VA. 

Quoting from letter received July, 1903, from the Dean 
of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, he says : ** As to my 
career : After graduation circumstances seemed to point very 
advantageously for me to law and I was for a season at the 
Columbia College Law School in New York along with 
Dennis, Billy Shaw, John Stevens, and dear old JohnUrner; 
I finished reading at home in my uncle's office and was taken 
into partnership in 1888, firm of Smyth and Lee. Realiz- 
ing I was a square peg in a round hole, I took advantage of 
a vacancy in the Faculty of the South Carolina University, 
applied for and obtained the position of Adjunct Professor of 
Biology, thus returning to my first love, and I have never 
had cause to regret it. In 1901 I accepted the Professorship 
of Biology in the Virginia Institute at Blacksburg, where I 
have been ever since." 

The Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg had 627 pupils 
last year and is next to the largest college in the State. It has 
a faculty of 45 professors and instructors, beautiful grounds 
and many buildings. ''In the Science Hall, where I am," 

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says Smyth, " I have a class room, general laboratory, private 
office, smiall laboratory and a museum." 

He has an assistant under him and last year was made 
Dean of the Faculty at an increase ol salary, a position in 
importance next to that of the President. He is also on the 
Athletic Committee. 

On December 29, 1897, at Charleston, South Carolina, 
(his old home). Professor Smyth was married to Miss Grace 
Allen, and they have two children, Thomas Smyth, 45^ , and 
Amy Allen Smyth, 33^. There were no classmates present 
at the wedding. ** In this part of the world " (continues the 
letter), ** it is seldom that I run across a Princeton man, but I 
try to keep in touch through the * Alumni Weekly,' which 
I have taken for six years or more. I hope to be present at 
the Reunion in June, 1904, was at the Decennial and also 
saw a number of the boys in October, 1895, at the Sesqui- 
centennial. If any of the boys happen to be down in these 
parts, they will receive a warm welcome." 

These are some of Smyth's writings : 

Notes on Argynnis Diana, etc., 1895; Catocala of Mont- 
gomery County, Va., 1899; Identity of Hemaris Tenuis and 
H. Diffinis (based on 4 years' breeding experiments), 1900; 
Description of Larva of Protopara rustica, 1900; Life His- 
tory of Artho caris genutia, 1900; Description of a new 
Philampelus from Mexico — Philampelus Eliza (Smyth), 1 901; 
Description of a new Morpho from Mexico — Morpho thoosa, 
(Smyth), 1903. Various Bird Notes in the "Auk." 

The Princeton ** Alumni Weekly" had this notice on 
May 21,1 903: 

*' Ellison A. Smyth, Jr., Professor of Biology in the Vir- 

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ginia Polytechnic Institute, has discovered a second new spe- 
cies of insect. This is a giant moth from Santa Cruz, Mex- 

ICO. 

Several gifts of moths from Professor Smyth have en- 
riched the Biological Museum of the John C. Green 
School of Science in Princeton. One collection was given 
at Christmastide and consisted of some seventy individuals, 
mostly from Mexico and Honduras, excellently preserved 
and mounted. Professor McCloskie, in a card printed in 
the "Alumni Weekly," thus acknowledges one of his gifts: 
** Professor Smyth has been very successful in his investi- 
gations of the structure and development of the Lepidoptera, 
and has made a large collection. The gift which he now 
sends to his Alma Mater, represents gems of the butter- 
fly-world ; and they have arrived with their names and locali- 
ties attached, and without the loss of a feeler or even of a 
scale ; and with their native colors undimmed. They will 
be on exhibition for a short time in the Biological Mu- 
seum; but they must be permanently protected from day- 
light, which would injure their colors." 

Smyth is a member of the New York Entomological 
Society and the ** Iris " Society (Entomological) of Dresden, 
Germany. 

CHARLES E. SPAHR, 

PHYSICIAN, 14 WEST MARKET STREET, YORK, PA. 

Spahr graduated in 1885 at the Hahnemann Medical 
College of Philadelphia, and then studied at European 
medical hospitals and universities from 1886 to 1888 ; prac- 

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ticed medicine at i 205 Spruce Street in Philadelphia in 1888- 
1889; practiced in Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1 889-1 896; 
came back to York, Pennsylvania, his birth-place, in June, 
1896, has been practicing there ever since, and, as he adds, 
hopes to end his days there. Spahr is a specialist in his 
profession, devoting himself to the eye, ear, nose and throat. 
He is not married, and has had no writings published. He 
is a member of local and State medical societies, and the 
American Institute of Homeopathy. 



FRANCIS M. STALKER, A.B., A.M., 

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, 
TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA. 

From his university course in Princeton, Stalker went 
directly to Orleans, Indiana, as superintendent of schools for 
two years. 

On September 3, 1885, he was married to Miss Minnie 
Mitchell, of Bedford, Indiana. James Robinson Stalker was 
born on March 4, 1887, who is now a freshman in Rose 
Polytechnic Institute. 

In 1876 Stalker was elected principal of the Borden 
Institute of New Providence, Indiana, an independent acad- 
emy, founded and owned by Professor W. Borden. 

In 1888 he removed to Bedford, Indiana, as Superintend- 
ent of City Schools, and since 1892 has had charge of the 
Department of Psychology of the Indiana State Normal 
School. 

He is at present president of the State Teachers' Associa- 
tion. 

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He founded and edited for a number of years "The In- 
land Educator," a periodical which had a national reputation 
at that time. Stalker's letter says : *' I have had nearly 




FRANCIS M. STALKER 



twenty years of good, hard work in the teaching profession, 
and have met with some degree of success. 

"As the years have gone by, I think I have grown to be 
a closer student both of books and life, and in such things 
my interest centres. I hope I may be able to get away in 
une. 

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JOHN STEVENS, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

DIED JULY 21, 1899. 

Stevens studied law at Columbia, New York City, and 
was then admitted to the bar. He and John Urner con- 
tinued the friendship of college days. They lived together 
in New York, and together made the journey west which 
resulted in the death of both. 

See account under John Urner. 



CHARLES R. STEVENSON, 

LAWYER, 106 MARKET STREET, CAMDEN, N. J. 

Upon leaving Princeton Stevenson went into the office of 
Samuel H. Gray, of Camden, N. J , as a law student. Was 
admitted to the bar in November, 1887, and has been prac- 
ticing law at 106 Market Street, Camden, N. J., ever since. 
He resides at Haddonlield, New Jersey, and is a member 
of the Board of Education of the Borough of Haddonfield, 
and a receiver of taxes of Haddon Township. 

On July 25, 1889, he was married to Emma, daughter 
of Lieutenant-Commander Edwin ]. De Haven, U. S. N. 
They have one daughter, Ethel, ten years old. 

Stevenson writes that he " smokes cigarettes same as he 
did when in college, but has 'changed in weight from 135 
to 220 lbs.' " He is fond of hunting and driving, and is a 
member of the Pen and Pencil Club, of Philadelphia, Pa. 

Stevenson is quite a dog fancier, and is always on hand at 
the big shows, and is a frequent visitor at the Kennel Club. 

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We understand that there is no better judge of beagles in 
the country. 

HENRY C. STEWART, 

LAWYER, 617 I4TH STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C. 

The name of Stewart's firm is H. Clay Stewart & Son ; 
their special business loans and investments. Stewart studied 
law after graduation and has been practising ever since in the 
above firm. He lives at 1022 iith Street, Washington, and 
was married on December 10, 1902, in New York City. 
His wife's name was Anna Todd Perkins ; her parents were 
Judge and Mrs. George Y. Perkins, of Kentucky. No 
classmates were present at the wedding, and the only com- 
ment relating to his marriage that we find in his communi- 
cation is as follows : '' Having embarked upon the matri- 
monial sea on the i oth instant, I have no apologies to offer 
except for the lateness of the embarkation." He has filled 
no public offices or position of any kind except Directorship 
in corporations. He is a member of a number of clubs, in- 
cluding Chevy Chase Club, Woodmont Rod and Gun Club, 
and Princeton Club of New York. Stewart says that the 
only way in which he has changed since graduation is that 
he has grown gracefully older. He disavows all accomplish- 
ments, but his classmates will ask what has become of that 
rare and exquisite whistle of his, which in College days the 
boys used to liken to " the wild song of the kiUiloo bird." 
And '* Snorky's " yodel, too, that used to mingle so sweetly 
with the voices and sounds of the night when the boys sang 
together in the Spring on the campus. Are these accom- 

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plishments to be so soon forgotten ? Perish the thougnt 1 
We imagine Stewart to-day, his whistle softened to the ten- 
der measures of the thrush, his yodel mellowed to a lullaby. 
We will not believe these accomplishments have passed away. 
Stewart's ambition is to continue to *' enjoy life as he has 
since leaving college." This answer is dubious in its mean- 
ing. Can it be that " Snorky " did not enjoy life when he 
was in College ^ He seemed to us one of the happiest and 
sunniest boys of the class. He must have had a rare good 
time since leaving college. As for his habits, ** Snorky " says : 
*' I presume all my fixed habits are good ones, as I cannot re- 
call any bad ones at present." His favorite leisure occupa- 
tion is fishing and hunting, and the social pleasure he most 
enjoys is a good dinner with good company. His ideal of 
perfect contentment is health and a large bank account. 



WILLIAM H. STONE, 

CARRIAGE MANUFACTURER, CRANDAL, STONE & CO., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 

"My Dear Classmate: 

" My life-history is short and can be put into a few words. 
The day before leaving Princeton I made all arrangements 
for entering upon the business which I am following to-day. 

"I was born and always lived here in Binghamton. 

"My marriage was on February 8, 1888. My wife's 
name Eleanor Welles. Her father's name is G. H. Welles, 
and we have five children and have all enjoyed good health. 
My children's names are : George H. W., Paul A., Laura, 
Wilma and Virginia. I have always fought shy of politics. 

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*'Am counting mucn on meeting the Class next year at 
Princeton. 

"William H. Stone." 

THEODORE A. SWAN, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, 19 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

Swan is the same faithful, industrious, sterling fellow he 
was in college, applying himself devotedly to every detail of 
the several estates which have been placed in his hands. 

After leaving Princeton, Swan studied law at Columbia 
and graduated from there in 1886. For a time he was in 
the office of Butler, Stillman & Hubbard, and later was with 
Strong & Cadwalader. Then he opened an office of his 
own and soon had more work than he could attend to in 
the management of estates. It is no wonder they sought 
him out, for certainly a more faithful and efficient steward 
could not be found. 

The taste for books which Teddy showed in college has 
grown with years and has been gratified. This has been 
Swan's hobby, and he has gathered a splendid collection of 
rare and beautiful editions of all the standard works. 

He has become an expert in line bindings and illustrations, 
and has a remarkable collection of editions de luxe. 

With all his love of being among his books. Swan has 
not became a recluse. He owes a duty to the world and he 
is ready to perform it. He is prominent in church work 
and a teacher in the Sunday-school. Many acts of benevo- 
lence may be traced to him. 

He has become interested in Free Masonry and holds 
high position in that Order. 

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Teddy has been too absorbed in work to think of matri- 
mony. He is too fond of his beautiful family home at 
Oyster Bay, Long Island, to be ambitious for a home of 
his own. 



ALBERT W. TAYLOR, A.B., 

MANAGER NEW YORK OFFICE, ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY, 
100 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 

Taylor went into the Edison Machine Shops in New York 
in the Fall of 1884. He has been in the electric lighting 
business for many years and is now manager of the Electric 
Storage Battery Company. 

He is not married. He belongs to the Lawyers' Club, 
the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the 
Engineer's Club. 

CLAUDE M. THOMAS, A.B., 

LAWYER, PARIS, KY. 

Thomas sends the following letter, which the editors 
consider a model. We wish that every man would make a 
note of it. 
"My Dear Classmate: 

" I could not give you an excuse that would appease my 
conscience or satisfy you for the delay in sending a response 
to your communications, and on that account frankly throw 
myself on the mercy of the court. Sometimes a green horse 
becomes frightened at an object in itself perfectly harmless, 
but you can never make the horse take that view of the mat- 

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ter, and if he passes the same point a year later he is more than 
apt to shy again. Now, that first letter of yours, with inqui- 
ries so numerous and far-reaching, threw me into consterna- 
tion, and while the succeeding notes were not at all danger- 
ous, I confess, whenever I received one of them, like the 
horse, I was nervous and panicky by reason of that first 
experience. 

" Frankly, old fellow, but little has occurred in my une- 
ventful life since college days, the relating of which would 
prove of interest to the boys. After graduating I was some- 
what undetermined as to my future course and remained for 
a year at my home, on my father's farm, near North Mid- 
dletown, Kentucky. I had then a longing, indeed, it is still 
the chief ambition of my life, to own and conduct a farm 
for the breeding ot fancy live-stock after the fashion in 
Kentucky, with no cares or responsibilities other than those 
associated with one's personal affairs. That may be a self- 
ish view as to a man's obligations to his fellows, but as we 
grow older I presume we are entitled to more or less selfish- 
ness along that line. 

" To ' return to our mutton,' as the French say, I was out 
of college a year, and in the fall of 1885, entered Columbia 
Law School, New York City, and studied there until shortly 
before the close of the college year, when I contracted 
malaria and was compelled to return home. In the fall ot 
1886 I went back to Columbia, but the malaria developed 
again, and, on the advice of my physician, I abandoned the 
law school, fully expecting, however, to re-enter the follow- 
ing vear and complete the course. However, on arriving in 
Kentucky that fall, some friends of mine urged me to make 

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the race for the Legislature. I was successful in this matter 
and became a member of the Kentucky Legislature in 
December, 1887. [He was the youngest member of the 
Legislature.] I was re-elected without opposition to the 
following General Assembly, which met in December, 1889. 
I presume I might have been speaker of that body, but 
declined to enter the contest by reason of the wish ot my 
most intimate friend, Mr. Cox, who desired to make the 
race, and I preferred to be his supporter rather than win the 
office myself. [We are told Mr. Thomas was sure of elec- 
tion to the speakership.] At the close of that legislative 
session I declined to stand for another re-election, though I 
might have returned unopposed. In 1888 I was a Demo- 
cratic Elector for the State at large, and was president of the 
Electoral College of Kentucky of that year. In 1892 I was 
again a Democratic Elector for the State at large. In the 
meantime, not having returned to Columbia in 1887, as I 
had hoped to do, I had studied law in the office of the 
Honorable J. H. Brent, Paris, Ky., and had been admitted 
to the Kentucky Bar, my office being at Paris. My brother, 
Edwin K. Thomas, Jr. — who was, for a time, in the Class of 
1886, and who will be remembered by some of the members 
of '84 — and I had developed a considerable business in the 
breeding of trotting horses, my brother having this interest 
in charge. His untimely death, from appendicitis, on June 
I, 1889, compelled me to temporarily abandon the law, in 
order to properly look after and dispose of our joint affairs. 
I take it for granted that I am the only one of '84 who cares 
anything for horseflesh, excepting Grier Hersh, and I know 
he will be interested when I tell him that one of the colts 

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in that lot proved to be the greatest winner of his day, and 
while we owned him, secured the three-year old record and 
was sold for Si 6,000. 

'* In 1893 I was appointed by President Cleveland to the 
position of Consul at Marseilles, France. I served in that 
capacity until the inauguration of President McKinley, 
March 4, 1897. ^^ ^^^^ ^^7 ^ resigned and returned to 
Kentucky in May following. 

" The most important event of my life occurred August 
9, 1893, when I was married to Miss Margaret C. Brent, 
daughter of ex-Judge J. H. Brent, of the Kentucky Supe- 
rior Court. We have one little boy, born July 12, 1900. 
His name is Edwin K. Thomas, in honor of my brother, 
and Todd, old boy, he is all right. He will be in the class 
of 1920, and if any '84 man expects to send a representative 
to win the honors of that class, be it understood that he is 
now informed of the trouble that awaits him. 

"After returning from Europe in 1897, ^ re-opened my 
law office in Paris and commenced hard work. I had 
arrived at that age when it became incumbent upon me to 
begin the laying up for the proverbial rainy day. I have 
done fairly well and hope yet to secure that farm referred to 
above. I am still practicing law, and in a small way am in 
the banking business. I am president of the First National 
Bank of Paris and treasurer of Bourbon County. 

''This summarizes the little I have done, the doing of 
which, be assured, has been continually associated with the 
fondest memories of the boys of '84. In these twenty years 
certainly no day has ever passed without a mental going 
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class history. Nothing is too good for any of them, and I 
have no sincerer wish than that the world is dealing kindly 
by each, and that God's blessings shall favor them to the end. 
" Believe me, dear Todd, faithfully yours, 

" Claude M. Thomas." 



J. GREENLEAF THORP, 

ARCHITECT, 3 WEST TWENTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

Thorp left college in Freshman year to study architect- 
ure. He is still pursuing that profession at the above address, 
and living a bachelor's life at East Orange, N. J. 



WILLIAM STEWART TOD, C. E., 

BANKER, 45 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. 

Tod is a pronounced success, as a class president, as a 
banker, and as a man. The class will never know all that 
Tod has done for us, and yet we know he has done a good 
deal ; as a banker he is well known — a member of the firm 
of J. Kennedy Tod & Co.; as a man we may know him by his 
many benevolent acts. A little incident in Central Park, 
New York, shows the man. Riding in his automobile he saw a 
cab run down a woman. The driver of the cab at once 
whipped up his horse to escape. Tod, seeing that the 
woman had attention, pursued the driver, and overtaking him, 
unassisted, took him to the police station and made the 
complaint and had the man convicted. The press of New 

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York were loud in their praise of this resolute and beneficent 
act. 

He is still the same sincere, generous, unassuming chap 
as of old, but if Princeton University, if his classmates, and if 
many others should tell of his many benefactions and gener- 
ous acts, the list would be long and the amount written, in 
many figures. As he never lets his right hand know what 
his left hand does, the account of his good deeds will never 
be written. 

Leaving college he went into the business of his brother, 
J. Kennedy Tod & Co., of which firm he is now the active 
head. His commercial sagacity and prudence have won for 
him a prominent place in the financial world. He is much 
sought for as a director in various companies, but he declines 
to lend his name to directorates or enterprises unless he has 
an actual and active interest. We find his name on the Board 
of Directors of the following companies : Bank of the Man- 
hattan Co., German Savings Bank, Germania Life Insurance 
Co., and the Associated Merchants Co. of New York. The 
latter, it will be remembered, is the great dry goods com- 
bination. 

Tod is still unmarried. He loves the country and has a 
magnificent estate in Connecticut, besides his town house on 
the upper west side in New York. 

AMBROSE G. TODD, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

LAWYER, 55 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK. 

Columbia Law School, New York City, claimed Todd's 
attention after leaving Princeton, and from there he grad- 

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uated and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1889 he 
became associated with Reeves, under the name of Reeves & 
Todd. They opened offices at the above address, where they 
are still located. Rowland has since joined the combination. 




AMBROSE G. TODD 



Todd has stuck pretty close to his profession, and has 
eschewed politics, society, and similar diversions. He served 
ten years in the National Guard, Seventh Regiment, taking 
his discharge as a First Lieutenant in 1899. He gave some 
attention to the department of rifle practice, and was for 
several years a member of the New York State Team. 

He belongs to a few ancestral and Revolutionary societies ; 

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to the Princeton Club of New York; the New York Athletic 
Club ; the Baltusrol Golf Club, and the Canoe Brook 
Country Club. 



REVERDY J. TRAVERS. 

After leaving college Travers entered upon a business 
career in New York City. He had an office at No. 80 
Broadway and lived at No. 1425 Broadway in a sumptuous 
bachelor's apartment. He figured prominently in society 
and was frequently seen at Newport. Then he received an 
appointment in the U. S. Consular Service to a port in the 
Orient. This post he occupied but a few years when he re- 
turned to New York, where he died. 



ALEXANDER H. TRAVIS, A.B., A.M., M.D., 

PHYSICIAN, 130 WEST EIGHTY-SECOND STREET, NEW YORK. 

Everybody knew Travis would be a doctor. He was cut 
out for that. In college he was dubbed " Doc," and it was a 
logical development that he should now be a physician. 

After graduating Travis studied at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons in New York, and thereafter was on the 
Interne Staff at Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Then he 
went abroad and studied at Wurzburg, Vienna, and Dublin, 
following special courses. 

Returning to America he opened an office in the better 
part of New York in the private house district on the West 
Side. It is hard and slow work getting a practice among 

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the higher class of patients, but " Doc " persevered. He 
turned his face away from the "■ flat practice," bringing 
quicker returns. What work he did was done carefully and 
well. Physicians down town recommended him to patients 
moving into that section of the city. Dr. Delafield (one of 
the very foremost of the consulting physicians) stated that he 
considered Dr. Travis one of the best diagnosticians among 
the younger physicians of New York. Cream will rise to 
the top and so did Travis. To-day he has a large and 
lucrative practice. If you look at Travis sometimes you will 
see that he is overworked. He savs his idea of perfect con- 
tentment is '* a fair proportion of work and holiday." The 
latter part of his ideal is getting further and further away. 
His safety valves are music, reading and a love to travel when 
he gets a chance. 

Travis has written a number of essays and articles for the 
medical periodicals. Most of these have unintelligible names, 
so we forbear. 

Travis is still unmarried and claims to have been too busy 
to think of such things. Since he has been so successful on 
the practical side it is time he turned his attention to the 
sentimental side. 



THOMAS CHALMERS UMSTED, 

DIED OCTOBER 23, I9OO. 

Umsted was not in our class long. He really belongs to 
'85. After leaving Princeton he studied law with E. Coppee 
Mitchell, of Philadelphia. At the same time he entered 
the Law School at the University of Pennsylvania, from 

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which he graduated and was admitted to the Pennsylvania 
bar in 1886. In the fall of that year he moved to Wilkes- 
Barre, where he resided until shortlv before his death. 

His professional practice drifted toward real estate, in 
which he was very successful and became recognized as an 
authority on questions of real estate law. 

He was married to Miss Katharine Scott Moore, of 
Wilkes-Barre, in 1891. He left one child, Thomas Scott 
Umsted, born April 27, 1892. 



JOHN URNER, A.B., A.M., LL.B., 

DIED OCTOBER 30, 189O. 

For centuries peoples of many lands have told and retold 
the story of Damon and Pythias to exemplify their ideal of 
fidelity and friendship. We members of the class of '84 
need not turn to tradition, for in the devoted fidelity ot our 
own classmates, John Urner and John Stevens, is found a 
story more noble and tender than we have ever found in fic- 
tion or fable. 

Urner and Stevens were both somewhat similarly situ- 
ated. Each was an orphan or part orphan. They came to 
New York, studied law at Columbia and entered upon the 
practice in New York City and made their home to- 
gether. " I room with John Urner," Stevens wrote in our 
1889 record, ''and think I have companion enough." Each 
prospered in a modest degree, and after a few years decided 
to make a trip into the Far West — not to seek a fortune, tor 
each was well supplied with this world's goods, but just ''to 
spy out the land." The person nearest and dearest to 

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Stevens was his sister. They were all in all to each other as 
the last survivors of their family^ Urner was devoted to his 
father, the only remaining member of their family. These 
two friends, on the eve of their journey, gave each to the 
other a pledge of fidelity, which was extended to the father 
and sister remaining behind. 1 shall never forget the day 
they started, as they stood with hands on each other's should- 
ers, and Stevens' sister, with tears in her eyes, asked Urner to 
look after John, and Urner extended his great hand, and with 
that measured speech and mellow voice said he would surely 
bring him back. 

They traveled as far as Pittsburg, where Urner became 
troubled with his stomach. They journeyed on, however, 
to St. Louis, where Urner was compelled to lay over a few 
days. Feeling somewhat better they traveled as far as Den- 
ver, and there Urner's trouble became acute and he went to 
the hospital, where he was treated for several weeks. Stevens, 
faithful to his promise, was ever at his side. Urner, feeling 
recovered, they took the train once more, reaching Salt Lake 
City. Neither felt in very good health, so they stopped over 
for a rest. Urner kept to his room, but Stevens one after- 
noon joined a party of friends at a ** beach party " on the 
lake shore. A bath in the lake or something he had eaten 
affected him most seriously, and next day both men were in 
bed. They decided, however, if they could, to push on to 
Walla Walla, Washington, and join our classmate Lee, who 
lived there, and then get a good long rest. They gathered 
themselves together and boarded the train and got as far as 
Ogden. Their strength giving out, they left the train and 
sought rest in a little hovel of a hotel by the railroad. Every 

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care and comfort was lacking, and they decided that to re- 
main there meant certain death, that they must push on, and 
so these two friends, each in his bed, drew lots as to who 
should rise and attend to baggage and arrangements to re- 
sume their journey. The lot fell to Stevens. They were 
assisted upon the train, and each kept up the courage of the 
other with plans of rest and recuperation when they should 
meet Lee and find a haven of rest. 

Lee says he wishes he could efface from his memory the 
image of those two living dead men who were lifted from 
that train. He at once had them taken to the hospital, 
where it was found that each was consumed with typhoid. 
Stevens went into delirium and could only be quieted by hav- 
ing LTrner's cot set close to his and hearing Urner tell of re- 
cent news from home and his sister. A day or two later, 
July 21, 1889, the nurse did not come as early in the morn- 
ing as usual to move Urner into Stevens' room. Urner sent 
for the nurse to inquire, and the chaplain answered the call 
and told him that his friend had passed away during the 
night without having regained consciousness. Urner gave 
directions to have the remains carefully embalmed and sealed in 
a casket. This was done, and the second morning after 
Urner inquired for his clothes, and when the nurses and doc- 
tors inquired the reason, announced that he was to start that 
day to take Stevens' remains to his sister. " I promised her 
I'd stick to him and I will." Remonstrances from his doc- 
tors and nurses availed nothing. L^rner staggered to his feet, 
was put on the train and started East. Lee arranged for as- 
sistance for part of the journey. Telegrams were sent to New 
York, and others of our classmates joined Urner on the route. 

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The doctors had stated that Urner's strength would not sus- 
tain him even to Chicago, but it did, and at that point he 
insisted on continuing the journey. Several classmates joined 
him. at Albany and proceeded to Washingtonville, N. Y., 
where Urner, gaunt and wasted, fulfilled his pledge to 
Stevens' sister. The funeral was held at once, and at its con- 
clusion the physician stated that now that the strain was re- 
lieved Urner might only live a few hours, that he must be 
taken to a hospital at once. His classmates placed him on a 
train and brought him to New York that night, where he 
revived sufficiently to be taken to the sea. His constitution, 
however, was undermined. So consumed was he with the 
fever that he had lost all power to assimilate any nourish- 
ment. Classmates visiting him at Block Island and Parkers- 
ford, Pa., his home, saw him fading, fading away, until he 
passed to his rest on October 30, 1890. 

A truer hero never lived. We men of '84 may well 
stand with heads uncovered at mention of his name. 



REV. ROBERT WOODS VANKIRK, A.B., 

PASTOR, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, JACKSON, MICHIGAN. 

That ''the best laid plans o' mice and men gang aft 
agley " was verified in the case of Vankirk, who planned to 
follow the immortal Livingstone and go as a missionary to 
" darkest Africa." 

After a course in Newton Theological Institute, from 
which he graduated in June, 1887, and a novitiate in the 
city missions of Fall River, he applied to the Foreign Board 
for an appointment. This was refused on account of indica- 

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tions ot an organic trouble, which would develop speedily in 
a tropical climate. So he became a pastor here instead. On 
May 28, 1888, he was married to Miss Grace A. Warren, a 
Wellesley girl, whose home was in Newton Centre. Dr. J. 
L. M. T. Finney was at the wedding. His wife died on 
June 25, 1899, ^^ Rockland, Maine, leaving five children — 
Warren G., born May 2, 1889 ; Margaret, March 13, 1893 ' 
Gordon, March i, 1895; Robert W., June 19, 1896, and 
Grace Warren, June 11, 1899. ^^ April 23, 1901, he 
married agaia, his wife being Miss Maud V. Stimson, of 
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Mr. Vankirk was ordained to the ministry of the Baptist 
Church in Fall River, and in the fall of 1889 received and 
accepted a call to the Second Baptist Church, of Grand 
Rapids, Mich., building it up from a mission church, as it 
was then, and making it independent with a membership 
nearly doubled. 

He was called from Grand Rapids to Ypsilanti, a much 
larger church, with an interesting field of usefulness, due to 
the fact that Ypsilanti has the State Normal College of 
Michigan, and of necessity a large number of young people. 
After four years there, he went to Rockland, Maine, and has 
recently returned again to Michigan as pastor of the First Bap- 
tist Church of Jackson. Mr. Vankirk has written a pamphlet 
entitled, " Helps for Young Converts," besides articles in 
papers and magazines. 

He has been moderator of various Church Councils and 
Secretary of the Michigan Sunday School Board ; he is also 
a member of State Mission Board of Michigan and the 
Michigan Baptist Ministers' Club. 

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Rev. ALDEN WELLING, 

A HERO HAS GONE TO HIS REST. 

" We were dreamers, dreaming greatly in the man-stifled town, 

We yearned beyond the sky-line where the strange roads go down, 
Came the whisper, came the vision, came the power with the need. 
Till the soul, that is not man's soul, was lent to us to lead." 

How truly Kipling's '* Song of the Dead" applied to 
Welling is shown in the tribute paid to him by the Diocese 
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 

" In the death of Rev. Alden Welling the convocation not 
only lost a man of God, but the Mission a friend who for 
many years gave not only of his substance, but an unselfish 
devotion to the work that is seldom equaled. His searching 
out the wayward and indifferent in the confines of * Hell's 
Kitchen,' so called, led him into stations where his life was 
more than once placed in danger. Undaunted by terror, he 
prosecuted his work with energy and vigor. His labor among 
the colored population will always be remembered by his co- 
workers in the Convocation, and will ever be an inspiration 
and incentive to unselfishness and devotion in the work of the 
Master." 

Welling died at his home in Philadelphia, on April 8, 
1903, of typhoid fever. 

After graduation he studied at the Episcopal General Theo- 
logical Seminary, New York, taking deacon's and priest's or- 
ders. His first charge was at Chew's Landing, N. J., his next 
at Metuchen, N. J., after which he became a curate at the 
Church of the Advent in Boston, where Finney in the '89 

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record, speaks of *' seeing his tall form, clad in priestly robes 
of sombre black." 

After the curacy at Boston he became Rector of St. Paul's, 
Riverdale, Conn., and from there he went to his great work 
among the poor and afflicted in West Philadelphia. His work 
here was incessant and prodigious. He was Chaplain of the 
Home of St. Michael and All Angels for Colored Cripples, 
at the same time maintaining a mission in another part of West 
Philadelphia. 

In 1 90 1 he became rector of Calvary Church, and under 
his rectorship the church prospered greatly. He had a sing- 
ularly sweet disposition, which endeared him to all who came 
in contact with him, irrespective of race or creed. 

The grief of the parishioners, to whom he was not only 
father but brother as well, and the hundreds of other souls 
to whom he had ministered, cannot be expressed in words. 
He was gifted with a tender and enduring love of souls. " He 
taught me the love of God," was a frequent comment on 
Father Welling's work as a confessor. In the pulpit he rose 
to real eloquence, but it was always the eloquence that came 
out of a single-hearted desire to strengthen and edify souls that 
were so dear to him. People that had no claim at all upon 
the church felt sure of sympathy and service at the hands of 
one who never knowingly failed anyone in time of sickness, 
trouble, sorrow, need, or any other adversity. 

He was buried with impressive ceremonies from his church 
at Easter time. The body was carried to the church after 
evensong on Easter day, and Vespers of the Dead were recited. 
Following this the body laid in state in the church, under 
guard of the acolytes and members of the several parish or- 

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ganizations, until thelirst Mass on Easter Monday. The hymn 
" When our heads are bowed with woe" was sung as the long 
procession moved down the aisle. The large congregation 
was visibly affected ; women and strong men and the children 
of the Sunday-school, and the members of the church wept 
heartfelt tears, as they saw the body of their friend and rector 
carried from the church. At Father Welling's request his 
watch was presented to the warden of his church, and all his 
other possessions were given to the poor among whom he had 
worked. 

Many and touching resolutions and memorials have been 
adopted in his memory. In the " Cripple News" of April, 
1903, is a full account of his work. " The Living Church " 
of April 25, 1903, contains an elaborate obituary. Calvary 
Church, Philadelphia, have erected memorials both at the 
grave and in the church, and St. Elizabeth's Guild has obligated 
itself to furnish flowers for the altar at Whitsuntide each year 
as a memorial to the ** Faithful Departed Father Welling." 

The following resolutions were drawn up by the Class of 

■84: 

The members of the Class of '84 have heard with great sorrow of 
the death of their late classmate, the Rev. Alden Welling. He car- 
ried with him into his life work the same devout and earnest spirit 
which characterized his college life. As a clergyman his career was 
marked by enthusiastic devotion to his church work. He chose as 
his field a hand-to-hand conflict with vice in its stronghold, where per- 
sonal courage, no less than personal sacrifice were needed. To the 
poor and afilicted he gave freely of his time, of his strength, and of 
his substance. " He rests from his labors, his works follow him." 
We are proud to feel that our college and class have sent out a man in 
whom the obligations of conscience have so mastered the whole life 

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as to give it freely to the service of God and our fellow men. It is 
for this that Princeton has always stood, and when her sons rise to the 
standard thus set before them, we feel the uplifting influence of their 
example nerving us to nobler efforts. 

Resolved, that we extend to our late classmate's relations our pro- 
found sympathy in their bereavement, and 

Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent by the secretary 

to his family and former parish, and that thev be published in the 

"Alumni Weekly." 

Henry N. Paul ) ^ 

T^ ^_ ,- Lommittee. 

Robert Hunter J 



OTTO W. WEYER, Ph.D., 

MANUFACTURER OF BRICKS, 563 WEST FERRY STREET, BUFFALO, NEW 
YORK. 

We are rejoiced to have found Weyer at last. For several 
years all communications were returned " not found." 

In 1899 we found him at last as Manager of the Buffalo 
Brick Association, and now we have him at the head of the 
firm of O.VV. Weyer & Company, manufacturer of shale brick. 
We know that each classmate will be glad we found him, so 
as to get the following splendid letter. It is too good to spoil 
by any editorial work of ours : 

'* My Dear Todd: 

" I acknowledge receipt of your invitation to emerge temp- 
orarily from obscurity with an Autobiography for the Class 
History of ' 84. 

" Of a certainty, we all of us take a peculiar intf^rest in the 
careers of the chums and acquaintances of college. Not only, 
either, in the careers of those whose names all men have talked 
about, enrolling them in the Hall of Fame, or the Rogues* 

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Gallery. But we love particularly to hear that Tom will send 
a boy of his next year to Princeton ; that Dick, old bachelor, 
fears that it is getting too late to think of doing anything of 
that sort ; and that the once extravagant Harry has learned, 
even with a family of eight or ten, to make both ends meet 
on a thousand or two a year : the good old small talk of North 
or Witherspoon adjusted to an age of forty-live. 

*' But when it comes to one's self, this kindly gossip or self- 
confession seems egotistical. It can't be possible that any one 
can care to know that I am engaged in the manufacture of 
bricks, and that I don't get away from this exciting occupa- 
tion the year 'round, — not even to *go to chapel.' 

*' When I broke away from '84, without staying for gradu- 
ation, I went to Europe. Nominally matriculated, first at Gies- 
sen, then Munich, then Berlin. I studied very little, enjoy- 
ing the loaf of my life at plays, concerts, museums, and in de- 
lightful tramps. Baldwin and ' Sally ' MacCormack I met 
at Tuebingen. Something (of a romantic nature, I suspect) 
soon drew Baldwin back home. * Sally ' staid a seinester. I 
staid two years more ; and, as there was more or less of work 
in the atmosphere at this place, I was taken down with it, — 
convalescing with the degree of ' Doktor der Staatswissens- 
chaften,' and encouragingly patted on the back by the staid 
old faculty with a * summa cum laude.' My thesis : * Die Eng- 
lische Fabrikinspektion,' had a brief day with the political 
economists of the universities. 

"That I should like to exult a little at this point, proves 
only how very ordinary has been the rest of my time. 

'* Coming home, I began to study law at Elmira, New 
York. A perfect greenhorn at the game, I suffered myself to 

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be nominated for Mayor, and to be utterly snowed under, my 

platform being a little like Jack Harlan's in his big Chicago 
struggle. 

"Admitted to practice in '90,! went to Buffalo. How dis- 
appointingly slowly fame and wealth came ! In fact, I finally 
made up my mind they never would come ; just as, every day, 
millions of other young fellows, coming to their senses, do. 

'*So I made a better move. I married. I got me two chil- 
dren, a lad (now ten) and a lass (now four years). And I went 
into business. 

"This is a great big world to me. Within it, my fame is 
just as wide and sure as the President's in his. My monopoly 
of its wealth is quite as grasping as that of United States Steel 
or Standard Oil. I win all my cases, whether my cause be the 
better or the worse — does Reeves? For my library of Red Rid- 
inghood and Robinson Crusoe I am as renowned as Carnegie 
with his hundred. I am the benefactor. I play the tyrant, 
purely at will, in my world; I rule it as I please. And best 
of all, I never need to worry about the loss of my momen- 
tous power, to intrigue and build up big machines to retain 
it. It makes me chesty, when I walk 'round in my world, to 
mark the spontaneous and loyal demonstrations ol my retainers. 

** During the winter months, this world lives in Buffalo, at 
563 West Ferry Street. In the summer, it sallies forth into 
the country, to Lake View, Erie County, New York. 

"To all of which, I hear the fellows of '84 say, ' Come off 
the nest ! ' 

"To which I reply, * From off this nest ? This warm and 
comfortable nest ? No, never ! so long as I live ! ' 

" Friend Todd, with what lies before you, do your worst ! 
"Very sincerely yours, O. W. Weyer." 

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REV. STANLEY WHITE, 

CLERGYMAN, 99 HILLSIDE AVENUE, ORANGE, N. J. 

Stanley White's account of himself is in a way the his- 
tory of the Hillside Presbyterian Church of Orange, N. J. 
He has identified himself prominently with the building up 
of that church and with social life in Orange. With his 
letter comes a booklet showing the church organization and 
membership, giving every indication of a successful, well- 
supported institution. He writes : *' I came here seventeen 
years ago. At that time there was no Hillside church in 
existence. The enclosed manual will show what we are to- 
day. I take no credit to myself; the people have worked hard 
and I have done my stint. I wish I might have done bet- 
ter. It has not been entirely smooth sailing ; but no one 
has a right to ask that he be free from hardships ; part of 
the zest of life is in overcoming them." 

Stanley's address is 99 Hillside Avenue, Orange, N. J. 
He was married on May 20, 1891, at the West Spruce 
Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. His wife's name 
was Miss Henrietta Logan Kneass. Her parents' names, 
Strickland Kneass and Margaretta S. Bryan Kneass. No class- 
mates were present at the wedding. Stanley has had five 
children, Eleanor Stanley White, born in 1892; Margaretta 
Kneass White, born in 1895 ; and Erskine Norman White, 
born in 1899. ^^ ^9^4- twins came to Stanley's home. 
Stanley has been in one pastorate ever since leaving Union 
Theological Seminary in 1887. He has had, however, sev- 
eral calls, one to Englewood in 1898, and one to Chicago 
in 1900, both of which he declined. His summary of posi- 
tions, semi-public and otherwise, is as follows : 

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" I have been twice a delegate to the General Assembly ; 
first, in Pittsburg in 1887, and second, in Los Angeles, Cal., 
in 1903; a director in the Orange Bureau of Associated 
Charities ; a director in the Whittier House Social Settle- 




STANLEY WHITE 



ment, Jersey City ; a director in the Orange Valley Social 
Settlement ; the Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Morris 
and Orange ; and a trustee and secretary of the Board ot 
Trustees of the City of New Jersey." 

He has published occasional sermons and written arti- 
cles for the press. He is a member of the following 
organizations : The American Academy of Political and 

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Social Science ; the Princeton Club, of New York ; the 
Essex Country Club, of Orange ; the New England So- 
ciety, of Orange; the Society of the Sons of the Ameri- 
can Revolution. Stanley says that his fondest ambition is 
** to do his work and lead his life in such a way as will 
commend the Christian religion to strong men." He says 
that the personal achievement of the past twenty years that 
has given him satisfaction is *' the ability to persuade the 
woman he did to be the mother of my children ; " and he 
answers the question as to the changes he has undergone 
since graduation as follows : '* I have gotten gray, semi- 
bald, more hopeful of men and things, and more eager than 
ever to be an enthusiastic Princetonian." As to accomplish- 
ments : "My enemies," he writes, "say I can preach; iny 
friends say I play a poor game of golf." His favorite leis- 
ure occupation is golf in the summer and working with 
tools in the winter ; and the social pleasure he most enjoys 
is the companionship and company of earnest men ; while 
his ideal of perfect contentment is the hour at his own fire- 
side " when the day's work is done, the cigar burning, and 
a book one doesnt have to read is in his hand." 



CHARLES S. WILSON, 

KELLOGG BUILDING, I416 F STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 

Has not been heard from since Freshman year. Address 
then was Washington, D. C. McKenney has looked him 
up for us, and reports his address as above. No further in- 
formation obtained. 

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CHARLES J. WINTOX 



CHARLES J. WINTON, 

SECRETARY AND TREASURER WISCONSIN VALLEY LAND CO.. WAUSAU, 
WISCONSIN. 

Winton went out to Wisconsin in 1883, and went to 
work scaling logs and lumber, and after following it for a time 
for others did some of it for himself. Finally he got a 
chance to buy an interest in a land grant given to W. O. 
R. R. Co., and for the next five years was with that land 
company, doing his own business in logs and lands besides. 
He was married on February 25, 1885, to Miss Helen Eliz- 
abeth Smith, and he built a house the next year. He has 
three children, Helen T., 12 years; David J., 6 years, and 

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Charles J., Jr., 3 years. Winton has been president of the 
Winton Timber Co., Winton Lumber Co., Thief River 
Falls Lumber Co., Pike City Lumber Co.; treasurer Wausau 
Southern Lumber Co.; secretary and treasurer Wisconsin 
Valley Land Co. and Gilbert Land Co., and director in the 
National German-American Bank of Wausau. He has also 
been a member of the firm of Daly & Winton, dealers in 
pine lands. 



GEORGE E. WOODHULL, A.B., A.M., 

MISSIONARY. 

Died of typhoid fever in Tokio, Japan, October 11, 1895. 

He was the only son of the Rev. G. S. Woodhull, D.D., 
of East Saginaw, Michigan, and was descended from an 
English family older than Queen Elizabeth. 

His collegiate course began at Lake Forest, was continued 
at the University of New York, and completed at Princeton 
University, and afterward at Princeton Theological Seminary. 
He went to Japan as a missionary of the American Pres- 
byterian Church in November, 1888 ; he went immediately 
to Osaka. The language engrossed his efforts at first, but his 
progress was rapid. Owing to removals of others he was 
the only male inissionary left in Osaka and vicinity for some 
years, this responsibility being very heavy. He had charge 
of two churches and five preaching places. He was often 
obliged to conduct services personally at two or more of 
these places on Sunday. At times he averaged a sermon 
every day. A year or so before his death he began special 
work among some factory hands assisted by a devoted Japanese 

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evangelist and two Bible women. Efforts were made literally 
day and night. Testimonials to his devotion to this work 
were neither few nor equivocal. It was a remarkable piece 
of work ; thirty-nine converts in a work of but fourteen 
months, a daily Bible study, prayer meeting, Sunday Schools 
for children and adult were well attended alongside of full 
regular services. He also made frequent tours to the province 
of Tyo in the west of Shikoku ; here he had regular work 
at five places, while some eight to ten other places were 
occasionally visited by him personally or at his instance, he 
keeping a close superintendence over the whole. At one of 
these places Woodhull was eager to erect a new church 
building, promising three hundred yen if they would raise a 
like sum. At a memorial meeting after his death that mis- 
sion raised the sum in a few moments, and the name** Wood- 
hull Memorial Church" was given to it. He also left the 
impress of his work on Sakai, a city of over 42,000 people. 

In an article by Dr. William Landis, he speaks thus of 
Woodhull: *' A close and persistent student of men, he laid 
a foundation which already in a brief beginning of work in 
Japan shows rich results. Keen critical acumen with a bright 
vein of originality made him a welcome participant in social 
chats as well as in more philosophical discussions. An ob- 
servant and ardent traveller with more than the usual travel- 
ler's scientific interest in all that was to be seen, he came to 
know well the country and people among whom his mission 
lay. His life was an earnest of much that the future might 
have yielded ; the loss to his work is not easily measured." 

He married Miss Lillie Johnson at West Plains, Missouri, 
June 7, 1888, and left three children, George, Mary and 

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Caroline. His widow, now Mrs. Tilton of Los Angeles, 
CaL, writes of the oldest son, ** My wish is to send my boy 
to Princeton where his father and grandfather both gradu- 
ated." 



WILLIAM P. WOODS, A.B., 

BANKER, LEWISTON, PENN. 

Lewiston is where Woods started from, and that's where 
he has ended up after somewhat extensive travel, and judg- 
ing from the beautiful and substantial home he has built he 
evidently expects to remain there. 

After leaving college Woods went into the lumber busi- 
ness, and for a time had charge of mills in West Virginia. 
His work here took him into the forest, and soon Billy be- 
came the priest, the physician and almost parent to a large 
squad of men. If you could hear Billy tell of the severe de- 
mands made upon his fund of knowledge and how he met 
them all you would appreciate the benefits of four years at 
Old Nassau. 

Later Woods' lumber interests took him to the Pacific 
coast. Having concluded his contracts there Woods came 
to New York and became Assistant Treasurer of the Union 
Traction Co., and from this he passed into banking, in which 
occupation he is now engaged. If vou want any money 
present yourself at the Mifflin County National Bank at 
Lewiston, where Woods is in charge ; his father is the pres- 
ident. If you have the proper credentials you'll get what 
you want. 

But Woods has not devoted himself entirely to money- 

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making. He is a factor in Lewiston in every good move- 
ment, whether political or religious. He is active in his own 
church, and in addition conducts a large mission for colored 
people, to which he gives a great deal of attention. He is 
also instrumental in maintaining a workingmans' club. 

In April, 1895, ^^ called Teddy Swan and Ambrose 
Todd to his aid, and with their help was married to Miss 
Rebecca Cochran Mann, the daughter of William Mann, of 
Lewiston, Penn. Two interesting children are now Woods' 
fond delight — David Walker Woods, 3rd, aged six years, and 
Mary Cochran Woods, aged four. 

In memory of college days. Woods now and then gathers 
some of the old classmates about him on his tally ho, and 
many have been the pleasant hours thus spent among the 
beautiful mountains of Pennsylvania. He calls his coach the 
"Tiger." One of the tiger flags from the Sesquicentennial 
Celebration is part of the equipment, so that there is never 
any doubt of the sympathies of the party when the '' Tiger " 
is tooled into a town, its flag flying and a Princeton rocket 
ready to ascend on the slightest provocation. 

URIAH B. WOOLLEY, 

PHARMACIST, 44 WEST FORTY-FOURTH STREET, NEW YORK, 

It's hard pulling getting facts from Woolley. Don't 
like writing for "print," so we've had to get such informa- 
tion as we could. 

He graduated from the New York College of Phar- 
macy in 1887, and thereafter managed the pharmacy at 52 
East Forty-second Street. He resides at the above address. 

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With difficulty he has kept himself clear of matrimonial 
entanglements. Woolley'-s big shoulders and genial counten- 
ance have been so attractive that he has been kept busy 
*' warding thein off." He is very much in demand socially. 

He is very faithful in devotion to his old class and class- 
mates. He can generally be counted on for each meeting 
and reunion. 



JOSEPH WOOLSTON, 

WOOLSTON & MOORE, WOOL MERCHANTS, IO4 CHESTNUT STREET, 
PHILADELPHIA. 

Joe Woolston has been in the wool business since grad- 
uation, and is now a member of the firm of Woolston & 
Moore, wool merchants, of Philadelphia. His residence is 
in Germantown. Woolston was married on September 1 6, 
1 90 1, at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. The name of his 
wife was Beulah H. Jenks, daughter of William H. and 
Hannah M. Jenks. There were several classmates at the 
wedding. Joe has one child, a boy, Stephen Stockton 
Woolston, born on October 10, 1902. Joe's answers to the 
class questions are as brief and stoical as an Indian's. They 
have a character of their own, and accordingly we have selected 
his question blank for fac-simile reproduction. It tells the 
story, and Joe has sent no communication that adds anything 
to these facts. 

ARTHUR L. YOUNG. 

Died in California about 1891. Poor Young's life was 
one long search after health. We all remember what a fine 

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Please give a Complete Record since Graduation. 



1. Present business address / /C C-d^ y^€c^ 

Name of firm or company .-.^^^^Z^T^^r^^?^?^?^...../*^ y^:j^1^^<yP^ . . 

Your residence r---r^^!(??^t<rt>«-'<-<<<*^^ ^^^'^^^-'^if:..^!^^^ 

2. If married, give date and ^X^^J^^^.^^'^Ci^i /j(>. /^^/T <^^^^^^*^1^^^!^^^ 

Name of wife J^J^^:<^:r^^=^^--^,....c^^ 



Name of her pareiits..i<rvf><rrfr>rr~> 
Any classmates present at wedding 
Name and ages of anj' children 




^<^./k;>^/^.-&. 



3. Give the various steps in your business or professional career. 



/i^^^^2r€ >^6ge,g^^^ ^-.^ 



4. Please give details regarding following : — 

Any degrees, titles or honors you have received.. 



/H(:^tyf>U't^ 




Any office or position, public, semi-public, political, military or commercial >^u 
havefilled .y^'^^^^<^^ .^-. 



5. Have any of your writings been printed or published. Give complete list with date 

Cl/t'h<fC........^^^ S^^^^r-^i^:^^^^ 




JOSEPH WOOLSTON 
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6 Of what societies, clubs, Boards or organizations of any kind have you been a member 

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7. If you are not married, what apologies have you to offer.. 



8. What is your fondest ambition ,-<<^'^<?.,.^<^'r?^ 

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9. What personal achievement in the past twenty years has given yott the most satis- 
faction -^^C^--<-<^ :^. y^ X 




10. In what ways do you think you have changed since graduation. CX-'^^'-'^^^^^'^^^r^.... 

a: -^^^•^'2^^^^^-*::-<>. 

11. What a^mnplishments have you. -^^ d^t^i^ ^^SiC-^^^-^^-^^^^ ^ 

12. Have you any fixed habits, good or bad, and if so, what are they - . ^r^r^ ¥'''^y^. 

i;:z£^ Z^^i£g^^^ l^ cJ(^J?^.... 

13. What is your favorite leisure occupation Q^O. ^J*^:^. yr^^^r^rli^r^^ A'^^^ ^ 

14. What social pleasure do you most enjoy .'^^..■^51<^^c^^^:^r:'?rf?^rt^....^^??'CC~^^^ 

15. What is your ideal of p^ect contentment ^-r''^^^^^i3t:.^rri€>^_.jC^^^ 



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fight of it he made to finish his college course. After grad- 
uation he went to California and continued the battle, but 
finally passed away without regaining his strength. 



JOHN McLEAN ZAPF, 

PRINCETON, N. J. 

We have not been able to get much information regard- 
ing Zapf beyond the fact that he is a well-to-do citizen of 
Princeton, living comfortably on his means. He is unmarried. 



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gin !^emonam 

Albert A. Castle 
Henry F. Coan 
Alexander B. Ernst 
Edward S. Leavitt 
H. W. Manners 
Frederick C. Parmly 
De Costa Pomerene 
William C. Rion 
William L. Rogers 

John Stevens 

Reverdy J. Travers 

Thomas C. Umsted 

John R. Urner 

Alden Welling 

George E. Woodhull 

Arthur L. Young 



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SINCE GRADUATION 

IN June, 1885, about fifty members assembled to celebrate 
our lirst anniversary and reunion. The first Record of 
the individual members of the class w^as published on 
this occasion. The next meeting of the class was our Trien- 
nial, held June 21, 1887. Forty-two members assembled at 
the University Hotel to partake of the banquet and celebrate 
the bestowal of the class cup upon William C. Hill on be- 
half of his son — our class boy. 

A letter was received from Professor Johnston, our hon- 
orary member, regretting his inability to meet with us. 

At this meeting was inaugurated the idea of a " batting 
cage" for the baseball men, and a fund was then and there 
started which was subsequently increased by general subscrip- 
tions, and the building was thereafter erected. 

On this occasion it was decided to plant a new Ivy and 
insert in the foundation of *' Old North " a suitable tablet. 
This was done with appropriate ceremonies the following 
June. 

On June 18, 1889, the class assembled in old Ivy Hall 
in Mercer Street for our quinquennial banquet. Professor 
Johnston was unable, by reason of sickness, to be present at 
this meeting. He sent a message, however, and resolutions 
of sympathy were adopted and presented to him next day by 
a committee. 

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On the 22nd of the following July, Professor Johnston 
was laid at rest, and a committee of our class attended, bear- 
ing our floral tribute to his memory. 

Our Decennial Reunion was celebrated in June, 1 894. 
We then inaugurated the headquarters idea, which has since 
been largely developed. The new store at No. 40 Nassau 
Street served as an assembly place, and sleeping quarters were 
arranged above. Who can forget these delightful hours of 
friendship and reminiscence among our class and college 
mates, and who can forget the delightful call and chat of 
dear old Dr. Duffield. 

The banquet was served in Odd Fellows Hall, forty-four 
members being present. A committee of fifteen was ap- 
pointed to consider the question of a class memorial. 

In 1896 the college celebrated its sesquicentennial, and 
a memorial fund of a million dollars was raised, which was 
to include all expected donations from all sources. After 
some correspondence with the college the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Memorial Committee adopted and presented 
to the college this resolution : 

Resolved, That the class of '84 present to the college on the occa- 
sion of the Sesquicentennial celebration a Fellowship of six thousand 
dollars ($6,000), and that we collect said sum within three years from 
October i, 1896, and complete the full endowment of the Fellowship 
to ten thousand dollars (| 10,000) as soon thereafter as may be 
practicable. 

The college celebration was held October 21, 1896, and 
our class assembled with torches and flags. About that time 
the silver question was prominent. Grover Cleveland re- 

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viewed the procession. When our class arrived in front of 
the reviewing stand, instead of rendering the college cheer 
as preceding classes had done, we carried out the drilling of 
Mcintosh, halted in our places, then turned, faced Mr. 
Cleveland, and shouted in concert, '* i6 to i .^ Nhy Then 
faced to the left and marched on. It was startling, a feature 
of the occasion and provoked a great cheer 

In June, 1899, our last reunion was held. Headquar- 
ters were established at No. 2 Nassau street, a house which 
was hired for the occasion, and the banquet was served at 
the Princeton Inn. On the afternoon oi June 12, a recep- 
tion was tendered to the class, their wives, relatives and 
friends, by Professor and Mrs. Baldwin. 

At this reunion the following resolution was adopted : 

Resolved^ That a committee of ten be appointed to designate 
a proper subject for a class memorial and to raise a fund to establish 
such a memorial as shall be selected; That Grier Hersh be chairman 
of said committee and that he be empowered to name his own com- 
mittee and to increase its members in his discretion. 

On October 25, 1902, the occasion ot the inauguration of 
President Wilson, twenty members of our class assembled and 
took their place in the academic procession and attended the 
exercises in Alexander Hall. This was the last meeting of our 
class. Numerous informal meetings and dinners have been held 
at the Princeton Club, New York. 

During these twenty years seventeen of our members have 
gone to their rest, and resolutions have been duly passed and 
presented to the members' relatives as each sad occasion arose. 



269 



REPORT OF MEMORIAL COMMITTEE 

York, Pa., May 7, 1904. 
Mr. William Tod, President : 

DEAR Sir : — The Chairman of the Memorial Com- 
mittee, appointed by the class at its last meet- 
ing, offers the following report : 

" Acting under authority granted, he appointed as mem- 
bers of the committee, Messrs. Butler, Hedges, Paul, Finney, 
Boyd, Jelke and Harlan. The committee held no formal 
meeting, but exchanged opinions by letter. 

" The chairman assumes the entire responsibility for the 
decision ' to not proceed in the manner proposed at the last 
meeting of the class,' and the conclusians reached by him 
are the result of the interchange ot opinions with members 
of the committee, class officers and various members. The 
chairman disclaims any intention of shirking his duties, and 
was only actuated by the great desire that the class establish 
a memorial worthy of its record. The diversity of opinion 
presaged no unanimity of action. A number of purposes to 
which a class memorial fund could be applied were proposed, 
each having its advocates. The choice of any one would, 
naturally, have been a disappointment to the adherents of 
all others. 



THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

"The questions arose : Of what amount of money would 
the fund ultimately consist ? Should the memorial be chosen 
before this would be approximately determined ? A fund 
sufficient to erect a memorial of one character would be inad- 
equate for one of another. Would the class feeling of the 
members respond generously to a simple proposition of a 
memorial without a definite purpose ? Should the commit- 
tee decide in advance ? If so, would a member subscribe 
freely to a fund to be applied to a memorial of which he did 
not approve ? The chief object being the creation of a fund 
sufficient to establish a creditable and permanent memorial, 
these considerations were regarded as being essentially perti- 
nent to success or failure. 

" In view of these difficulties it was deemed best to 
recommend : First, that the class select, at its twentieth 
anniversary, the character of the memorial, and that the sum 
of money necessary for the establishment of such memorial 
be determined. Second, that if at the end of a definite 
period the amount of money contributed has not reached the 
amount so determined, then the Memorial Committee shall 
apply whatever the amount of money then in its hands to a 
memorial which, in its judgment, such an amount would 
establish. 

" All of which is respectfully submitted, 

Grier Hersh, Chairman." 



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VARIOUS FACTS AND FIGURES 

ALL told one hundred and sixty-eight men were mem- 
bers of our class at sometime during our college 
course. Of these one hundred and twelve graduated 
with us and six graduated with other classes at Princeton. 

Of our one hundred and sixty-eight members seventeen 
have died, or about ten per cent. One hundred and four- 
teen have married, or about sixty-eight per cent., and these 
have a total of two hundred and ten children. 

Our membership distributed itself among the world's 
workers as follows : 



Lawyers . 


• 


• 40 


Business . 




■ 35 


Physicians 




■ 23 


Clergymen 


. 


21 


Professors 




12 




Unki 


lown 



Engineers g 

Bankers .... 6 

Pharmacists .... 5 

Editors . . . . . . 3 

Architects 2 

. . . . 9 



The bonds of friendship and devotion for our classmates 
and for the college have grown with the years. Each suc- 
ceeding reunion has exceeded its predecessor in attendance 
of members. 

As a class it was our good fortune to be small enough to 

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make possible a class acquaintance and friendship of each 
member with all the others. As a class we were always, 
during college, unusually united and harmonious, and this 
same spirit has shown itself in later years in numerous small 
and informal dinners and reunions at the Princeton Club in 
New York. With but one exception no class has held as 
many of these dinners as the class of '84. Those of you who 
have never attended one of these dinners, and who would 
renew your old love and memories, come to one of our fam- 
ily gatherings and get in close touch with the old boys, who 
will be more than glad to see you in the fold. 

There are forty-tour ot our members located in and 
around New York City, and thirty-live are members of the 
Princeton Club of New York. 

While our memorial has not taken definite shape as yet, 
we have not been lacking in our devotion to the University. 
Toward the building of the Alumni Gymnasium our members 
have contributed nearlv five thousand dollars. Individuals have 
also contributed large sums to projects connected with the de- 
velopment of the New Princeton. 

Our class started the scheme and the subscription for the 
erection of th? batting cage for use of the baseball men. We 
originated the Alumni-headquarters idea in its good aspects. 
We disclaim certain abnormal growths which have attached 
themselves unbidden to what in its inception was a good plan. 
We hope this year to exemplify our headquarters plan prop- 
erly administered. 



273 



DIRECTORY 

CLASS OF 1884 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 

Alton, William, Jr., Lawyer, 

I I 33 Chicago Stock Exchange Building, Chicago, 111. 
Ayres, William E. Teacher, 

Swedesboro, New Jersey. 
Baldwin, Harry L., Engineer, 

United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
Baldwin, James M., Professor, 

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 
Bandmann, Chas. J., Engineer, 

508 California Street, San Francisco, Cal. 
Belknap, Edwin S., Tea, 

5 Franklin Street, Poughkeepsie, New York. 
Benson, James B., 

Coudersport, Pa., 
Bigham, Lawrence W., Lawyer, 

5 1 8 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Black, Henry McK., Banker, ^^ Broadway, New York City. 
Blackwell, Alvin, 

Coolbaughs, Pennsylvania. 
Blackwell, Josiah Low, Contractor, 

229 E. German Street, Baltimore, Md. 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

Blair, John D., Lawyer, 

Hollidaysburgh, Pa., 
Boak, James W. K., 

Address and occupation unknown. 
Boyd, John Y., Coal, 

222 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Bradley, Edward L., Clergyman, 

Lake Villa, 111. 
Brereton, Wm. D., 

Yonkers, New York, 
Burrough, George, Pharmacist, 

Manasquan, New Jersey. 
Burt, James E., Physician, 

Asbury Park, New Jersey. 
Butler, George P., Broker, 

35 Wall Street, New York City. 
Carpenter^ George H., Fire Extinguishers, 

247 Pearl Street, New York City. 
Cauldwell, Samuel M., Architect, 

123 East 23d Street, New York City. 
Chester, William, Clergyman, 

3430 Grand Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
Collis, William E., 

Chester, New Jersey. 
Coolidge, Francis L., Cotton Broker, 
1 1 2 Water Street, Boston, Mass. 
Coltman, Thomas C, Druggist, 

La Junta, Colorado. 
Coyle, A. McN., Mechanical Engineer, 

17 Battery Place, New York City. 

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DIRECTORY 



Crawford, Alexander, 

Address and occupation unknown. 
Crecraft, Albert, Editor, 

Franklin, Ind. 
Darling, William, 

West End Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Daves, John C, 

Room 3 2, Chamber of Commerce B'ld'g, Baltimore, Md. 
Davis, Charles E., Lawyer, 

New York City. 
Dennis, Leonidas, Lawyer, 

66 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Dolton, Edward B., Groceries, 

114 N. Warren Street, Trenton, New Jersey. 
Dornblaser, Samuel G., Clergyman, 

600 Washington Street, Hagerstown, Md. 
Due, Dr. Malvern H., Physician, 

117 North 19th Street, Birmingham, Ala. 
Dunn, Charles B., Lawyer, - 

Romaine Building, Paterson, New Jersey. 
Dysinger, George W., Dentist, 

1307 Washington Avenue, North, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Egbert, Seneca, Physician, 

4814 Springfield Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa 
Erdman, William, Lawyer, 

141 Broadway, New York City. 
Eshleman, George Ross, Lawyer, 

48 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa. 
Etter, George E., Real Estate and Insurance, 

213 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Pa. 

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THE CLASS OF 1884, PRINCETON 

Evans, Charles A., Clergyman, 

243 Palisade Avenue, West Hoboken, New Jersey. 
Fell, Alexander, G., Physician, 

317 South River Street, Wilkesbarre, Pa. 
Ferguson, Stanley, Lawyer, 

Southwest Corner Main and Fourth Streets, Cincinnati, 

Ohio. 
Finley, Joseph L., Physician, 

Centerville, Queen Anne's County, Md. 
Finney, John M. T., Physician, 

1300 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Md. 
Forgey, Joseph J., Pharmacist, 

938 West 43d Street West Philadelphia, Pa. 
Forman, John N., Clergyman, 

Etah, United Provinces India. 
Fox, Gilbert R., Lawyer, 

Norristown, Pa. 
French, George B., General Freight Agent, Chicago, Mil- 
waukee and St. Paul Railroad, Chicago, 111. 
Gayley, Henry B., Lawyer, 

51 Wall Street, New York. 
Good, George M. H., Engineer and Mines, 

Osceola Mills, Pa. 
Goodell, William C, Physician, 

141 8 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Grier, Alvah R., Teacher, 

Birmingham, Pa. 
Gulick, J. Franklin, Jr., 

New York City. 
Gulick, J. Henry, Real Estate, 

1505 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

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D I R ECTOR Y 

Gulick, William H., Engineer, 

PhcEnixville, Pa. 
Hamilton, Charles S., Physician, 

I North Fourth Street, Columbus, Ohio 
Hamilton, Richard J., Editor, 

Hagerstown, Md. 
Harlan, John M., Lawyer , 

Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. 
Harper, George McL., Professor, 

Princeton, N. J. 
Harris, Edward W., Lawyer, 

68 William Street, New York City, 
Hedges, Job E., Lawyer, 

141 Broadway, New York City. 
Helmuth, William T., Physician, 

26 East 62d Street, New York City, 
Hersh, Grier, Banking, 

York, Pa. 
Heydrick, Carl L, Lawyer, 

Franklin, Pa. 
Hicks, Frank S., Insurance, 

Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, Cal. 
Hill, William C, Constructor, 

27 East 2 2d Street, New York City. 
Hobbs, Angier B., Physician, 

346 Broadway, New York City. 
Howell, Charles, J., Jr., Clergyman, 

Longmont, Colo. 
Hunter, Robert, Clergyman, 

125 Susquehanna Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 

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Hutchinson, Randall, Physician, 

324 Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, Cal. 
Jackson, Albert M., Professor, 

Upper Alton, 111. 
Jelke, Ferdinand, Jr., Judge, 

Court House, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Jennings, J. Gundry, Petroleum, 

E. H. Jennings & Brother, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Johnson, Newell L., Physician, 

629 West Fourth Street, Williamsport, Pa. 
Kennedy, Moorhead C, Railroading, 

Chambersburg, Pa. 
Kessler, Henry W., Chemist, 

Brandt, Pa. 
Kimball, Paul T., Physician, 

Lakewood, N, J. 
King, J. W., Physician, 

Stottville, Columbia County, N. Y, 
Langdon, William M., Clergyman, 

Hamilton, Bermuda. 
Lawson, James M., Lawyer, 

Aberdeen, S. Dak. 
Lee, Chester F., Engineer, 

71 Safe Deposit Building, Seattle, Wash. 
Leeper, S. H., Clergyman, 

Coatesville, Pa. 
Leute, Emil, 

Custom House, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Lewis, Alvin S., Professor, 

Bowling Green, Ky. 

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DIRECTORY 

Look, David M., Woolens, 

1 08 Franklin Street, New York City. 
Lundy, Ayres D., Engineer, 

Railway Exchange Building, Michigan and Jackson 

Boulevards, Chicago, 111. 
McCormack, Thomas J., Teaching, 

La Salle, 111. 
Mcintosh, Burr, Photographer, 

18 West 33d Street, New York City. 
McKay, R. Gordon, Clergyman, 

330 47th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
McKenney, Frederick D., Lawyer, 

1317 F Street, N. W., Washington, D. C 
McMahon, R. Fulton, Lawyer, 

54 William Street, New York City. 
McMillan, Albert W., 

St. Paul, Minn. 
McMuUin, Charles T., 

Lancaster, Pa. 
Marshall, Starling L., Retired, 

Henderson, Ky. 
Maxwell, Joseph E., Professor, 

Worcester, Ohio. 
Miller, Arthur McQ^, Professor, 

State College, Lexington, Ky. 
Miller, Eugene, Insurance, 

New York Life Building, Kansas City, Mo. 
Miller, Frank H., Carriage Manufacturer, 

713 North Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Mishoff, Ivan D., Physician, 

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413 Goldsmith Building, Milwaukee, Wis. 
MofFat, Alexander, Engineer, 

152 West Thirty-fourth Street, New York City. 
Moffat, William D., Publisher, 

Charles Scribner's Sons, 153 Fifth Avenue, New York. 
Moore, Charles L., Lawyer, 

Georgetown, Delaware. 
Morris, Henry J., Retired, 

Philadelphia Club, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Munger, Henry C, Merchant, 

99 John Street, New York City. 
Murray, John C, Lawyer, 

1667 Downing Avenue, Denver, Col. 
Nassau, William L., 

With Pennsylvania Railroad, 8 Walnut Street, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 
Neely, J. Howard, Lawyer, 

Mifflintown, Pa. 
Nichols, Thomas McB., Clergyman, 

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Olcott, Arthur W., Physician, 

54 North Stone Avenue, Tucson, Ariz. 
Ordway, Smith, Clergyman, 

Sodus, Wayne County, N. Y. 
Paul, Henry N., Jr., Lawyer, 

181 5 Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Phillips, J. Warne, Mining Engineer, 

Reno, Nev. 
Poe, S. Johnson, Lawyer, 

100 East Lexington Street, Baltimore, Md. 

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DIRECTORY 



Pomerene, Atlee, Lawyer, 

Canton, O. 
Prentice, Robert Kelly, Lawyer, 

52 Broadway, New York City. 
Reed, Joseph H., 

4721 Calumet Avenue, Chicago, 111. 
Reeves, Alfred G., Lawyer, 

^^ Liberty Street, New York City. 
Reynolds, William F., Banking, 

Bellefonte, Pa. 
Robinson, James W., Physician, 

402 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Robinson, James J., Professor, 

Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 
Rowland, Alex. S., Lawyer, 

^^ Liberty Street, New York City. 
Sharp, Raymond W., Physician, 

45 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, New York. 
Shaw, Ralph, Lawyer, 

229 Main Street, Paterson, N. J. 
Sleeper, Henry H., Clergyman, 

Grace Church, Elizabeth, N. J. 
Smith, Augustine C, Lawyer, 

3 I Nassau Street, New York City. 
Smith, Benjamin B., Unknown. 
Smith, Everett L., Real Estate, 

Bromley Land Company, Trenton, N. J. 
Smyth, Ellison A., Jr., Professor, 

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 
Spahr, Charles E., Physician, 

14 West Market Street, York, Pa. 



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Stalker, Francis M., Professor, 

Terre Haute, Ind. 
Stevenson, Charles R., Lawyer, 

106 Market Street, Camden, N. J. 
Stewart, Henry Clay, Lawyer, 

617 Fourteenth Street, Washington, D.C/ 
Stone, William H., Carriage Manufacturer, 

Binghamton, N. Y. 
Swan, Theodore A., Lawyer, 

19 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Taylor, Albert^ Electric Batteries, 

100 Broadway, New York City, 
Thomas, Claude M., Lawyer, 

Paris, Kentucky. 
Thorp, J. Greenleaf, Architect, 

3 West Twenty-ninth Street, New York City. 
Tod, William Stewart, Banker, 

45 Wall Street, New York City. 
Todd, Ambrose G., Lawyer, 

^^ Liberty Street, New York City. 
Travis, Alexander H., Physician, 

130 West Eighty-second Street, New York City. 
Vankirk, Robert W., Clergyman, 

Jackson, Michigan. 
Weyer, Otto, 

563 West Ferry Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
White, Stanley, Clergyman, 

99 Hillside Avenue, Orange, N. J. 
Wilson, Charles S., 

1416 F Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. 

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Winton, Charles J., Lumber, 

Wausau, Wis. 
Woods, William P., Banker, 

Lewiston, Pa. 
Woolley, Uriah B., Pharmacist, 

44 West Forty-fourth Street, New York City. 
Woolston, Joseph L., 

I ID Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Zapf, John McL., 

Princeton, N. J. 



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